Bibliography

Primary Texts

Attrell, Dan & David Porreca (trans.). Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. Penn State University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-271-08213-4. — First academic English translation from Arabic and Latin manuscripts.
Greer, John Michael & Christopher Warnock (trans.). Picatrix: The Classic Medieval Handbook of Astrological Magic. Adocentyn Press, 2010. — English translation from the Latin text, practitioner-oriented.
Ritter, Helmut & Martin Plessner (trans.). Picatrix: Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Magriti. Studies of the Warburg Institute, Vol. 27. London, 1962. — Scholarly Arabic-to-German translation, long the academic standard.

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1531. Book II, Chapter 33: "Of the images of the twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon." — Definitive Western treatment of the lunar mansions.
Tyson, Donald (ed.). Three Books of Occult Philosophy: The Foundation Book of Western Occultism. Llewellyn, 1993. — Modern annotated edition.

Warnock, Christopher. Mansions of the Moon: A Lunar Zodiac for Astrology and Magic. 2nd edition. Renaissance Astrology, 2019. — Modern practical guide with ephemeris 2019-2033. Illustrated by Nigel Jackson.

Fierro, Maribel. "Batinism in al-Andalus: Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi (d. 353/964), Author of the Rutbat al-Hakim and the Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)." Studia Islamica 84 (1996): 87-112. — The definitive study attributing the Picatrix to al-Qurtubi rather than al-Majriti.
Burnett, Charles. "The Translating Activity in Medieval Spain." In The Legacy of Muslim Spain, ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 1036-1058. Leiden: Brill, 1992.
Pingree, David. "Some of the Sources of the Ghayat al-Hakim." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 43 (1980): 1-15.

Burnett, Charles & W.F. Ryan (eds.). Magic and the Classical Tradition. Warburg Institute, 2006.
Copenhaver, Brian P. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Al-Biruni. The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology. Trans. R. Ramsay Wright. London, 1934. — First formal systematization of the 28 lunar mansions.
Varenne, Jean. Yoga and the Hindu Tradition. Trans. Derek Coltman. University of Chicago Press, 1976. — Context for the Nakshatra system.

Menocal, Maria Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Little, Brown, 2002.
Saliba, George. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. MIT Press, 2007.
Freely, John. Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World. I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Lyons, Jonathan. The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. Bloomsbury, 2009.

Renaissance Astrology — renaissanceastrology.com — Christopher Warnock's site with mansion pages, biography, and talismanic information
The Moonlit Hermit — moonlithermit.blogspot.com — Detailed Picatrix commentary by chapter
Digital Ambler — digitalambler.com — Extended analysis of Perfect Nature (2020 series)
Chronos Speaks — chronosspeaks.com — Perfect Nature invocation analysis
Arnemancy — arnemancy.com — Decan/Tarot connections

Esoteric Archives — esotericarchives.com/picatrix.htm — Picatrix summary and reference
Internet Archive — Full Picatrix text PDFs (Books I-II and III-IV)
JSTOR — Fierro's "Batinism in al-Andalus" article
Academia.edu — Various academic papers on the Picatrix and lunar mansions
Penn State University Press — Attrell & Porreca translation page

Wikipedia — Articles on Picatrix, Twenty-Eight Mansions, individual biographical subjects
Encyclopaedia of Islam — Entries on manzil, manazil al-qamar, relevant scholars