Maslama al-Majriti
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Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, known in European Latin-language sources as Methilem, was a Muslim Arab astronomer, alchemist, mathematician, economist and scholar in al-Andalus, active dur
Al-Majrīṭī was one of the earliest alchemists to record the usage and experimentation of mercury(II) oxide.
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
Maslama al-Majriti
…some of his glory: the latter is the current general belief. The two works are the "Sage's Step/The Rank of the Wise" (Rutbat al-hakim, ?1009) and the Picatrix. Both were translated into Latin, in a version somewhat bowdlerised by Christian dogma, in 1252 on the orders of King Alfonso X of Castile; the original…
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).