Picatrix is the Latin name used today for a 400-page book of magic and astrology originally written in Arabic under the title Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm (Arabic:...

ultimate source is the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, better known in the west as the Picatrix, specifically the Invocation of the Perfect Nature within that text. The...

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...

deemed forbidden in Islam. Alchemy and chemistry in Islam Islamic astrology Picatrix Shams al-Ma'arif Eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path...

book became notorious in German Renaissance magic, named together with Picatrix as among the most abominable works of necromancy by Johannes Hartlieb....

angel Uriel and contains diagrams and formulae. De Occulta Philosophia Picatrix Fernando, Diana (1998). Alchemy: An Illustrated A to Z. UK: Blandford....

scholarly high magic derived from High Medieval grimoires such as the Picatrix, Liber Juratus Honorii, and Liber Razielis Archangeli. While the term "nigromancy"...

described in Hermetic writings, by the Indian astrologer Varāhamihira, in the Picatrix, and in Japanese writings. Varāhamihira's images of the decans was influenced...

the oldest European alchemy texts, translated from the Arabic, like the Picatrix. It is considered to have been written c. 900 A.D. To quote Plessner, "the...

as medicinal items. Extensive reference to bezoars also appears in the Picatrix. In 1567, French surgeon Ambroise Paré did not believe that it was possible...