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Eight Saints. Folio from a breviary or missal

Juan de Carrión [attributed to] [workshop of] (Documented in the last third of the 15th century)

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This folio probably belonged to a breviary or a missal. Saulnier (1982) ascribed this piece to the corpus of Juan de Carrión, since it has many similarities with the Cantorales of the cathedral of Avila. Likewise, in a private collection in Trieste and in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, two other folios are preserved that also belonged to the same volume: one of them with an Assumption and the other with a Crucifixion. In fact, in the latter a putti appears holding a phylactery that reads: "Johan de Carrió". This has led Saulnier (1982) to identify Juan de Carrión as responsible for it.

Juan de Carrión's workshop was located in Segovia (Villaseñor, 2009), so the folio was made in that locality. However, it is not known where it was, although if we take into account the locations of the rest of the manuscripts made by the workshop, it is plausible to think that it was somewhere in the provinces of Avila and Segovia.

It is not known when the piece left Castilla y León, it is possible that, as happened with other codices from Juan de Carrión's workshop, it was taken after the disentailment. In any case, at the beginning of the 20th century it was purchased by Jean Masson, an avid collector of rare books and incunabula. Masson decided to donatepart of his collection to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on February 21, 1925, where the piece still remains.

Description

The folio is divided into six compartments in which the following saints appear: Saint Paul, Saint James, Saint Lawrence, Saint Anthony, Saint Clare, Saint Eulalia of Merida and another unidentified saint (Villaseñor, 2009). The vegetal decoration of the compartments that separate the saints is reminiscent of other works from Juan de Carrión's workshop, such as the Cantorales of the cathedral of Ávila or the Libro del Caballero Zifar (Book of the Knight Zifar).

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• Mid XV^th c. - Early XX^th c.

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  Possible origin from Castile and Leon, Castilla y León (Spain)

• Early XX^th c. - ca. 1925

  private collection

  Jean Masson, Amiens (France) *

• ca. 1925 - present

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  École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (France)