Fabio Seller

Nell'Antipalus maleficiorum di Tritemio, un elenco dei libri negromantici, si trova citato questo liber attribuito al profeta Enoch.

Nel XXXII capitolo del secondo libro del De occulta philosophia Cornelio Agrippa richiama una raccomandazione dell'astronomo arabo Thabit sul modo di captare la virtus di una determinata stella procurandosi la pietra e l'erba che le sono assoc

 The Liber de virtutibus herbarum consists of a treatise about zodiacal signs and the seven planets, connected to medical plants, described by Jonathan Smith as "one of the most precious texts for an understanding of the religious life of Late Antiquity".

It is the Latin version - achieved by Ugo of Santalla - of the Arab work Kitab sirr al-haliqa ("The book of the secret of Creation"), written in the first half of the 11th century.

 This booklet, attributed to Hermes Abhaidimon, «almost unique among the philosophers blessed by God», relates the characters of fifteen fixed stars, each one exerting influence on an associated gem, plant and magic image.

The text consists of a collection of astrological aphorisms attributed to Hermes probably translated by a lost Arabic origil by the physician and philosopher of the 11th century Haly Abenrudianus ('Ali ibn Ridwan).

We have the autograph manuscript of this text; it is stored in the Lincei Archive and belonged to Federico Cesi, the Academy founder.

It is an anthology of one hundred astrological aphorisms of Arab origin, written by Stephen of Messina between 1258 and 1266, and dedicated to Manfredi of Sicily.