Focus on this artwork and analyze the History.
The gradual was made in Paris in the 1250s, perhaps in the studio of Nicolas Lombard. 
Richard and Mary Rouse attribute the manuscript to one of the four artists who produced a glossy bible commissioned by Guy de La Tour du Pin, bishop of Clermont from 1250 to 1285.
Its patrons may have been John II, Duke of Brittany and Beatrice of England, Eleanor's parents. 
It would have been entrusted to their daughter in 1290 when she arrived at the abbey. Eleanor became an abbess in 1304. 
The coat of arms of the abbess appears on the edges, but is later than the manuscript.
When she died in 1342, she left the gradual to the abbey. 
In 1387, Pascal Hugonot, abbot of Saint-Pierre de la Couture in Le Mans, donated the gradual to the collegiate church of Saint-Junien in Haute-Vienne. Father Joseph Nadaud studied it there in the middle of the 18th century. During the French Revolution and its seizure of religious property, the gradual was deposited in Limoges.
Limoges Haute-Vienne John II, Duke of Brittany gradual bishop of Clermont Beatrice of England Joseph Nadaud Le Mans French Revolution Saint-Pierre de la Couture