Deo gracias Anglia

The manuscript the edition cites

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26

  Folios

  17v–18r (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml, which names the manuscript 'The Selden Carol Book' ('No. 26') and lists two facsimile images of it, 'bodley_archseldenb26_17v.jpg' ('Agincourt Carol Facsimile Page 1') and 'bodley_archseldenb26_18r.jpg' ('Agincourt Carol Facsimile Page 2'))

  On this site

  Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26 · open in the reading room

  IIIF manifest

  iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

  Library’s statement

  Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Terms of use: CC BY-NC 4.0. For more information, please see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms/

  At the library

  Images at the library

  DIAMM

  source record

Checks

Schema

Valid MEI 5.1 with each of: lxml (libxml2) RelaxNG (mei-CMN); lxml (libxml2) RelaxNG (mei-all); Jing 20241231 (mei-CMN); Jing 20241231 (mei-all); SchXslt 1.10.1 on Saxon-HE 12.5 (mei-CMN); SchXslt 1.10.1 on Saxon-HE 12.5 (mei-all)

Against the edition

Every note (425) and syllable (308) matches the edition’s own MIDI file in pitch, onset and duration.

Engraving

Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b, 2 pages

How the encoding was made

• All notes, rests and syllables come from the source edition's LilyPond file at the pinned commit, converted mechanically. Nothing was transcribed from the manuscript for this encoding.
• Pitch, onset and duration of every note and the placement of every syllable were checked automatically against the edition's own MIDI file (checks/midi-compare.json).
• Accidentals: written accidentals are encoded where LilyPond's default accidental rule prints them in the edition; sounding alterations are given in @accid.ges on every other altered note. Accidentals the edition marks with its \ficta command (printed above the note) are encoded as editorial accidentals (accid with func='edit', place='above').
• The edition opens with the burden for altus and tenor, then writes stanzas and burden twice as volta repeats: the altus carries stanzas 1-3 under the first repeat and 4-6 under the second (lyric lines 1 to 3, with their stanza numbers encoded as verse labels); the tenor carries text only in the burden at the end of each repeat, and the bassus sings only there. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition, including 'and the', which the edition sets to one note as one syllable.
• Both repeats begin and end on the third beat of a measure, and the double bar line before the burden in each repeat also falls on a third beat; LilyPond prints the repeat signs and the bar line at those points. MEI measures end at bar lines, so each of these measures is encoded as two measures with metcon='false' that carry the same bar number, the number LilyPond counts. The edition's MIDI file plays each repeat once, and the MEI is compared with it without the repeats.
• The bassus is written with rests in the opening burden and with spacer rests (LilyPond 's2. * 18') during the stanzas, and the edition's layout block hides empty staves in every system, the first included (\RemoveEmptyStaves with remove-first), so the bassus staff is printed only where it sings. The spacer rests are encoded as MEI space elements, one or more per measure; the setting is recorded as scoreDef optimize='true'.
• Beams are encoded where the edition beams explicitly (the edition switches automatic beaming off). Layout instructions of the edition (page size, staff size, system spacing, line breaks) are not encoded; the edition removes the ambitus signs its layout file would add, and none are encoded.

Where the encoding differs from the edition

• System and page breaks follow Verovio's layout, not the edition's; the edition's manual line breaks (\break) are not encoded.
• Voice names (altus, tenor, bassus) exist only as LilyPond context names; they are recorded here but not encoded as staff labels, as the edition does not print them.
• Where LilyPond prints a bar line or a repeat sign inside a measure, the measure is encoded as two measures with metcon='false' (checks/conversion-report.json, measuresSplitAtInnerBarLines); the timing is unchanged.
• The bassus's spacer rests, written as 's2. * 18' and 's2', are encoded as plain space elements that end at each bar line (checks/conversion-report.json, spacersWrittenAsPlainValues).
• MEI records only that empty staves are hidden (scoreDef optimize='true'); that the edition also hides them in the first system has no MEI attribute and is not encoded. Verovio, by default, hides no staff on the first page, so its rendering shows the bassus with its rests in the first system, where the edition leaves the staff out.
• The edition's MIDI tempo (quarter note = 98) is not encoded.
• Verovio may draw lyric hyphens and extender lines in other places than LilyPond, which drops hyphens where space is short.

Licences in full

This MEI file is a mechanical conversion of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, https://stcpress.org), which is licensed CC BY 4.0 according to the publisher's statement and the edition's own score footer. Because the licence badge on the publisher's page links to CC BY-SA 4.0, the conversion is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), which satisfies either reading. Attribution: edition by Monique Rio, St Cecilia Press; MEI conversion by Motetus (AEM Ventures SRL). Changes: converted from LilyPond to MEI 5.1; see the encodingDesc and revisionDesc.