Paris Psalter

David Composing the Psalms, with Melodia behind him, folio 1v, 36 x 26 cm, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale

The Paris Psalter (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. gr. 139) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript, 38 x 26.5 cm in size, containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures. The Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called Macedonian Renaissance, a 10th-century renewal of interest in classical art closely identified with the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (909-959) and his immediate successors.

Reproach of Nathan, c. 950, fol. 136v.

In the classification of Greek biblical manuscripts, it is designated by siglum 1133 (Rahlfs).


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