Ms. codex. In Latin with some French; later additions in Middle English. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ... in requiem meam. Collation: 1-212 312+3 (fol. 31-33 are late 15th-century additions: fol. 31 a tipped-in singleton, fol. 32-33 a bifolium), 4-712 86+1+12 (fol. 106 is a singleton that ended the original manuscript; fol. 91-102 are a late 15th-century quire of 12 intercalated between fol. 90 and 103, which are conjugate and were the center of the original quire of 6+1; fol. 90v is offset onto fol. 103), 910−1... Layout: 1 column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, fol. 91-102 ruled in red ink. Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics. Fol. 91-102 and fol. 106 in slightly later hands. Decoration (primary): Eleven 5- to 6-line historiated initials with full bar borders in gold and colors, each with the Mohun, Tiptoft, and/or Wilington arms in the lower margins: The Annunciation. Eleanor of Mohun holding the Mohun arms in her right hand, Tiptoft arms in her left (fol. 1, Matins, Hours of the Virgin) -- The Nativity. Mohun arms (fol. 7, Lauds, Hours of the Virgin) -- The... Decoration (secondary): Four-line foliate initial with partial border, added during the 15th-century on fol. 91. Two-line initials in similar style throughout fol. 91-102v. Two-line initials in gold and colors throughout original manuscript in palette of pale blues, greens, and pinks, with partial border inner and upper/lower margins, eleven of them historiated (mostly suffrages): Trinitarian... Binding: 15th-century pink deerskin over boards, heavily rubbed, parchment flyleaves and pastedowns (now pulled up), sewn on split tawed bands; housed in a four-flap wrapper within a tan cloth clamshell box. Origin: Written in Western England for Eleanor of Mohun, a woman of Dunster, around the year 1330, probably before 1338 (Michaels, pp. 21-22); Eleanor stands in the lower margin of fol. 1 holding her parent's arms (of John de Mohun at the left, and of Ada (perhaps) of Tiptoft at the right). Her husband's arms (Ralph of Wilington) appear on fol. 26 and 34. Michaels (p. 21) argues that the Label... Provenance 1: Signature Peter le Neve (1661-1729), verso of front flyleaf, dated 1699. Votive prayers to St. Thomas of Canterbury on fol. 15 crossed out and his name in the litany (fol. 48v) scraped away, replaced by le Neve with "St. Olave." The Le Neve collection was sold by John Wilcox in 1731. Exhibited after 1879 at the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition. Exhibit label identifying the... Immediate source of acquisition: Bought from Maggs in 1954 (cat. 1954, no. 124) Call number: MS q Med.124. Former call number: MS 1546. Bibliography: R. J. Dean and M. B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman literature: a guide to texts and manuscripts (London, 1999); M. Dockray-Miller, "The Middle English Verse of Boston Public Library MS 124," Women and Language 31 (2008): 23-26; M. A. Michael, "The Hours of Eleanor de Mohum: A note on the coats of arms found in Boston Public Library Ms. 1546," The Coat of Arms n.s. 5 (1982): 20-23...
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