The Armagnac Breviary was originally commissioned by Louis Duc d’Orleans, the brother of King Charles VI of France, on the occasion of the wedding of Jean de Roussay and Jeanne de Chepoy, in the year 1390. In the Breviary, the couple are depicted kneeling in front of St. Saturninus, a small detail that must have been requested by the Duc d’Orleans. After political tensions and a bitter power struggle at the King’s court during the early 15th century, the Breviary found its way to the d’Armagnac family, from which the manuscript gets its name. An unknown artist added a small depiction of one owner, Jean d’Armagnac (c. 1440-1493), with the representation of his coat of arms beneath a bishop’s hat, as d’Armagnac was the bishop of Castres. By the mid-nineteenth century the manuscript had been split into two volumes, and around the turn of the twentieth century noted collector Henry Yates Thompson acquired both volumes. Since then, the two volumes of the Breviary have stayed together, changing hands four times and now part of the Wyvern Collection.