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"Picatrix"

A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic

Also known as German version

by Maslamah ibn Ahmad Majrīṭī, David Pingree, Steven Ashe, B. Bakhouche, Dan Attrell, John Michael Greer, Christopher Warnock, John Greer, Edmund Kelly, Yoko Eishima, Majrīṭī & Hellmut Ritter

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Multiple languages, Spanish

Description

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None of the 2 sources behind this record supplied a summary of "Picatrix" (1933). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Ritual magic and grimoires, Alchemy and Hermeticism, Astrology

Subjects: Text, Magic, Astrology, Early works to 1800, Alchemy, Magie, Islam, Alchemie

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Astrology, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “Picatrix”. Retained metadata contains “Picatrix” in the title, “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Picatrix”· via Open Library
    • “Picatrix”· in title
    • “Magic”· in subtitle
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Picatrix”· in edition title
    • “Magic”· in edition subtitle
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and swisscovery matched “Alchemie” and “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemie” in the subject metadata and “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

    • “Alchemy”· via Open Library
    • “Alchemie”· via swisscovery — Swiss Library Service Platform
    • “Alchemie”· in subject
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-title-seed matched “Astrology” and “Picatrix”. Retained metadata contains “Picatrix” in the title, “Astrology” in the subject metadata, and “Picatrix” in the edition title.

    • “Astrology”· via Open Library
    • “Picatrix”· via Open Library
    • “Picatrix”· in title
    • “Astrology”· in subject
    • “Picatrix”· in edition title

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 22 editions; 3 cataloged here.

A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic

Open Library record

Jan 10, 2019Penn State University PressEnglish
  • 9780271082127
  • 0271082127
No ebook

dalla versione latina del Ghāyat al-ḥakīm

Open Library record

1999MimesisItalian
  • 9788887231465
  • 888723146X
No ebook

das Ziel des Weisen

swisscovery network catalog record

2; 25 cm; Das Ziel des Weisen / Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī; LXXVIII, 435 p; Originaltitel: Ġāyat al-ḥakīm; Studies of the Warburg Institute; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_BCUFR, 41SLSP_UBE, 41SLSP_UBS, 41SLSP_UNE, 41SLSP_UZB; vol. 27

1962The Warburg Institute University of LondonArabic, German—Catalog record

Subjects

14 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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  • 991029973589705501

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 22 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL139539W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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