The Parma Psalter

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 398

(JEWISH ART)

The Parma Psalter

ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile Edition of the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript of The Psalms with a Commentary by Abraham Ibn Ezra. Two volumes. Plates and Text (prepared by Malachi Beit-Arie, Therese Metzger, Emanuel Silver). Text volume printed on blue paper. Limitation card with stamp of Publisher and Biblioteca Palatina in Parma tipped in Original calf backed vellum and calf boards. Housed in slip-case. 12mo

London: Facsimile Editions 1996

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

The manuscript was in the collection of G.B. de Rossi (1742-1831). In 1816 de Rossi sold it to Napoleon’s wife, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma for 100,000 francs. She presented it to the Palatina Library, Parma, where it presently resides