The Parma Psalter

(JEWISH ART)

Facsimile Editions

London

1996

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

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