Its radiantly beautiful book decoration is enchanting to behold: 15 full-page miniatures on a gold background, eleven pages with decorative initials, 256 smaller initials and 24 calendar medallions. The colourful miniatures on a gold background depict the life and work of Christ and thus establish a connection between the Old Testament psalms and the salvation history of the New Testament.

The contemporary horn binding is a great rarity. Only 18 such bindings have survived from the Middle Ages. The binding of the Bamberg Psalter is among the earliest and most complete examples. It consists of two painted and gilded parchment leaves. Translucent plates of worked horn, fastened to the wooden book covers with narrow silver strips, protect the precious pictures.

The Bamberg Psalter is the joint work of two artistically high-ranking master illuminators who belonged to different traditions and whose cooperation and juxtaposition illustrates the change in style from Romanesque to Gothic. The magnificent manuscript was probably created around 1230 in Regensburg for a noble lady from the family of the Counts of Hirschberg, a wealthy family who lived in the Eichstätt area.

A faithful facsimile of the Bamberg Psalter was published in 2019 by the Quaternio Verlag Lucerne.