Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim)

Picatrix, the Latin name for the Arabic Ghayat al-Hakim, is an anonymous medieval magical compendium of astral and talismanic magic, later translated from Arabic into Latin and carrying its own full set of decan images independent of the standard planetary rulerships. This record cites the work itself, at an approximate date, rather than any one specific modern edition of it, and holds it as a primary text of the tradition it describes rather than as independent evidence for the systems it sets out. Use it to establish what this text itself teaches about astral magic and its decan and planetary correspondences; a claim about the work's own composition history, its debated attribution, or its later reception in the Latin West is better established through a dedicated scholarly edition of the text, such as the critical translation held elsewhere in this register, which addresses those questions directly and this bare citation of the primary text does not.