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Paris Psalter
The
Paris Psalter
(Paris,
Bibliothèque Nationale
, MS. gr. 139), designated by siglum
1133
(Rahlfs), is a
Byzantine
illuminated manuscript
containing 449 s and 14 full-page miniatures "in a grand, almost classical style", as the
Encyclopædia Britannica
put it. Together with
Basil I
's
Homilies of St Gregory Nazianzus
, the Paris Psalter is considered a key monument of the so-called
Macedonian Renaissance
in
Byzantine art
during the 10th century.
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