Sapientia Orientalis

La sezione comprende i testi ermetici nelle versioni siriaco ed arabo fatto oggetto di traduzione in latino o lingue vernacolari nel corso dei secoli XII-XIV.

The section includes texts of the Hermetic tradiction in their Syrian and Arabic versions that were translated into Latin or vernacular languages during the 12th-14th centuries.

(Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana, Firenze. Ms. Ashb. 1166, ff. 11v-12r.)

Picatrix

The original Arabic text, entitled Ghayat al-hakim, was written in Spain in 1047-1051 and translated into Castilian in 1256, at the court of Alfonso X el Sabio.

De mirabilibus mundi

Erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, the text circulates, with great success, from the XIII century circulates, within a collection of texts about magic, natural philosophy, chemistry and medicine, with various titles: Experimenta, Liber Experimentorum, Secrets Alberti, De virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium, De herbarum proprietatibus naturis et animalium lapidum, Liber aggregationis.