David Pingree's article in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1980, is peer-reviewed academic scholarship. Its strength is that Pingree was a leading specialist in the history of Arabic and medieval science, and the article traces the actual textual sources behind the Ghayat al-Hakim, known in Latin as the Picatrix. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly article: it addresses the specific source-tracing question in its title rather than the work's broader reception and influence.
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Citation
AuthorDavid Pingree
PublisherJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Publication Year1980
Source TypeJournal article
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: peer reviewed academic scholarship by a leading specialist in the history of Arabic and medieval science. NotesPeer-reviewed scholarly study of the sources of the Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix), Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1980.
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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