The Great Canterbury Psalter

Anglo-Catalan Psalter

Bibliothèque nationale de France

“Unique and unrepeatable first edition, strictly limited to 987 numbered and authenticated copies”

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The codex was executed in two different periods: Canterbury, c. 1200 and Catalonia, c. 1340.

n The text, set in three columns, contains the Hebraic, Roman and Gallican version of the Psalms.

n Each Psalm is illustrated by drawings amalgamating different scenes, and by numerous historiated initials decorated with gold filigrees.

n The manuscript belonged to the libraries of Jean de Berry, Margaret of Austria, Mary of Hungary and Napoleon I.

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