By Al-Majriti
The Ghâyat al-Hakîm fi'l-sihr, or Picatrix, because it is understood within the West, is a crucial Arabic magical textual content. it really is might be the most important and such a lot entire of the grimoires, or handbooks of magic. The attribution to the Andalusian mathematician al-Majriti (or al-Madjriti) (d. ca. 1004-7) is taken into account pseudo-epigraphic. The Latin translation dates to 1256 and the court docket of Alphonso the clever, king of Castille, and exerted a substantial impact on Western magic thereafter. it really is stated that a lot of Ficino's astrological magic derives from the Picatrix (see I.P.Couliano, Eros and Magic within the Renaissance, collage of Chicao Press, 1987, p. 118). The Picatrix is pointed out through Johannes Trithemius in ebook 2 of his infamous Steganographia (1500) and in his Antipalus Maleficiorum (c. 1500). One replica (British Library, Sloane manuscript 3679) handed down from Simon Forman (d. 1611) to Richard Napier (d. 1634) to Elias Ashmole (d. 1692) to William Lilly (d. 1681).
E.M. Butler wrongly affiliates it with Gio. Peccatrix, (no doubt a pseudonym) who edited an Italian model of the major of Solomon (British Library, Sloane manuscript 1307). Misled through a few reviews via Mathers and others, Dr. Butler incorrectly concluded that the Picatrix was once "an Italian version of the Clavicle, strongly impregnated with black elements" (Ritual Magic, 1949, p. 135.)
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