The Fifteen Stars, Stones, Plants and Images
No public-domain English translation of the Greek fragments; the text passed into Latin and Arabic transmission and reached the Renaissance through the *Picatrix* (*Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm*) of pseudo-Maslama. Recommended editions: David Pingree, ed., *Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghāyat Al-Ḥakīm* (Studies of the Warburg Institute 39, London, 1986); David Pingree and Hellmut Ritter, eds., *Picatrix: Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī*, 2 vols. (Studies of the Warburg Institute 27, 1962-1986). For the Hermetic stratum proper see Charles Burnett, *Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages* (Variorum, 1996). · Stub entry; no text reproduced.
1**Stub.** No public-domain English translation has been imported.
**What survives.** A Hermetic treatise listing fifteen fixed stars, each paired with a stone, a plant, and an engraved image whose talismanic combination draws down the star's specific virtue. The Greek original is lost; the text survives in:
- A Latin recension copied through the medieval magical miscellanies (e.g. the *De quindecim stellis et de quindecim lapidibus* attributed to Hermes / Belbenith / Enoch).
- An Arabic recension embedded in the *Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm* (*Picatrix*), Book II.
**Recommended editions.**
- David Pingree, ed., *Picatrix: The Latin Version of the Ghāyat Al-Ḥakīm* (Studies of the Warburg Institute 39; London: Warburg Institute, 1986). Latin text only.
- David Pingree and Hellmut Ritter, eds. and trans., *Picatrix: Das Ziel des Weisen von Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī*, 2 vols. (Studies of the Warburg Institute 27; London / Leipzig, 1962-1986). Arabic text and German translation.
- John M. Greer and Christopher Warnock, trans., *The Picatrix: Liber Atratus Edition* (Adocentyn Press, 2010-2011). English translation of the Latin Picatrix; under copyright.