The 1575 Basel edition names no author, and no signed manuscript or contemporary attribution has surfaced. Modern critical editions have examined the question without reaching a settled candidate.
What would resolve this A documentary link, a printer's record, a contemporary letter or an internal stylistic match tying the Latin text to a named figure in the Basel printing or physicians' circles of the 1570s.
OpenHistory of science / early modern book historyAnonymous, first printed Basel 1575; English translation by Robert Turner, 1655, Arbatel de Magia Veterum (Robert Turner's 1655 translation)