Early prototype Book of Hours, excessively rare. This book was probably written at Oxford in an elegant gothic liturgical hand with illuminated initials throughout in raised burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white tracery, More than 150 animals, dragons and grotesques decorate the margins and there is a picture of a priest reading from a manuscript and of two knights jousting, one bearing the arms of John Le Fitz Reynaud, which is probably a clue to the identity of the first owner
