Psalterium Glosatum or Salterio Anglo-Catalán. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Lat. 8846.

Large folio: 174 ff.

Mod. brown leather, gilt spine on 6 raised bands with red labels, red leather slipcase. Very good copy.

Complete full-size colour facsimile edition of this partly 12th - partly 14th C. codex also known as the Anglo-Catalan psalter. Text in Latin, in three parallel columns which present three different Latin translations of the Psalter: the Psalterium Romanum, the Psalterium Hebraicum, and the Psalterium Gallicanum. Ill. with more than 140 miniatures illuminated in gold, and 190 decorated initials painted on a gold ground. From leaf 92v onward, the illuminations are by Ferrer Bassa (c. 1285-1348). One of 987 numb. copies (n. 928). Contains two specimens of the Bible of Saint Louis by the same publisher.