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
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).
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
Picatrix
…and 1258. The Latin version was produced sometime later, based on translation of the Spanish manuscripts. It has been attributed to Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti (an Andalusian mathematician), but many have called this attribution into question. Consequently, the author is sometimes indicated as "Pseudo-Majriti…
Al-Majrīṭī was one of the earliest alchemists to record the usage and experimentation of mercury(II) oxide.