The Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm’s Latin Reception in Alfonso X’s Castile

Record summary

The Latin circulation of the Picatrix in thirteenth-century Castile represents a major translation and reception episode in which Arabic astral magic entered Latin learned culture. It matters for comparison because translators and readers reclassified planetary images, ritual timing, and philosophical claims across religious and linguistic boundaries. The exact institutional setting, personnel, and stages of translation require documentary verification, and association with Alfonso X should not be simplified into personal authorship or direct patronage of every manuscript. Later European reception also reshaped the text.