Ibn Wahshiyya
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Ibn Waḥshiyya, died c. 930, was a Nabataean agriculturalist, toxicologist, and alchemist born in Qussīn, near Kufa in Iraq. He is the author of the Nabataean Agriculture, an influential Arabic work on
Beginning of The Nabataean Agriculture from a 17th-century manuscript
Excerpt about snake venoms and their effects and treatment from a ca. 17th-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript of the Book of Poisons
Attempted translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs by pseudo-Ibn Wahshiyyah (from Shawq al-mustahām, Paris MS Arabe 6805, fol. 92v–93v).
Picatrix
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Picatrix is a 400-page Arabic book of magic and astrology, which most scholars assume was originally written in the middle of the 11th century, though an argument for composition in the first half of
Ibn Wahshiyya
…al-Zayyāt. They were used not only by later agriculturalists, but also by authors of works on magic like Maslama al-Qurṭubī (died 964, author of the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm, "The Aim of the Sage", Latin: Picatrix), and by philosophers like Maimonides (1138–1204) in his Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn ("Guide for the Perplexed", c…
Instructions for a talisman against flies, a love-talisman, and an enmity-talisman. (Istanbul, Hagia Sophia 2443).
Same section in a different 18th century manuscript (Riyadh, KSU MS 5751).
Same section in an undated Ghayat al-Hakim manuscript (Istanbul, Hamidiye 852).