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Auction 14 · Lot 398
The Parma Psalter
- Estimate
- $2,500–$3,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(JEWISH ART)
printer
Facsimile Editions
Place
London
Publication
1996
Description
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
summary
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
Original calf backed vellum and calf boards. Housed in slip-case. 12mo
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