On Physical Ligatures (or: On Incantation, On Medical Amulets)
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De physicis ligaturis (or: De incantatione)
anonymous (Ps.-Arnald of Villanova, perhaps Constantine the African)
Latin Incipit
Qvesivisti fili Carissime de incantatione decolli suspensione si quid prodesse potest … (MS Paris, BnF, lat. 7737. Link [⬈], p. 114a).
Arabic Print or Manuscript
not extant
Latin Print or Manuscript
Judith Wilcox and John M. Riddle, ‘Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā’s Physical Ligatures and the Recognition of the Placebo Effect’, in: Medieval Encounters 1 (1995), pp. 1–50, here pp. 31–39.
Brethren of Purity (Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ)
On the Quiddity of Magic (Epistle 52)
Fī Māhiyyat al-siḥr
De quattuor confectionibus
anonymous (very probably John of Seville [1]) (the translator probably used further sources)
Latin Incipit
DIxit aristoas vidisti ne hermetem hec animalia siluatica scilicet lupos et aues … (MS Montpellier, BIU, Section de Médecine H 277. Link [⬈], f. 64ra).
Arabic Print or Manuscript
Brethren of Purity (Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ), On Magic: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 52, Part 1, ed. and transl. Godefroid de Callataÿ and Bruno Halflants (Oxford, 2011).
Latin Print or Manuscript
Antonella Sannino, ‘Ermete mago e alchimista nelle biblioteche di Guglielmo d’Alvernia e Ruggero Bacone’, in: Studi Medievali 41 (2000), pp. 151–89, here pp. 185–189.
Notes
[1]: Dag Nikolaus Hasse and Andreas Büttner, ‘Notes on Anonymous Twelfth-Century Translations of Philosophical Texts from Arabic into Latin on the Iberian Peninsula’, in: Dag Nikolaus Hasse and Amos Bertolacci, eds, The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology (Berlin/Boston, 2018), pp. 313–369.
Alkindi (al-Kindī)
Treatise on the Location of Rays
not extant (possible title: Risāla fī Maṭraḥ al-šuʿāʿ)
Omnes homines qui sensibilia sensu percipiunt ... (MS Paris, BnF, lat. 16097. Link [⬈], f. 200ra).
Arabic Print or Manuscript
not extant
Latin Print or Manuscript
Marie-Thérèse d’Alverny and Françoise Hudry, ‘Al-Kindi: De Radiis’, in: Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 41 (1975), pp. 139–260, here pp. 215–259.