La bionda treçça

The manuscript the edition cites

• Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 87

  Folios

  126v–127r (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml ('Codex Squarcialupi', 'No. 176, fol(s)/pages 126v-127'); the IIIF manifest labels the canvases 'Carta: 126v' and 'Carta: 127r')

  On this site

  Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 87 · open in the reading room

  IIIF manifest

  cdm21059.contentdm.oclc.org

  Library’s statement

  Pubblico

  At the library

  Images at the library

  DIAMM

  source record · composition 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 (366) and syllable (350) matches the edition’s own MIDI file in pitch, onset and duration.

Engraving

Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b, 3 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 at written pitch (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').
• Ligature brackets of the edition (\[ ... \]) are encoded as bracketSpan with func='ligature'.
• The edition writes the whole ballata twice (music variables used twice, each with its own volta repeat) to carry four lyric lines per voice; the encoding follows it measure by measure. Each voice has two lyric lines per pass, as in the edition, with the stanza numbers it prints ('1. 5.', '4.', '2.', '3.') as verse labels. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition; where the edition joins two words on one note with an underscore, the encoding has a space, as LilyPond prints it.
• Layout instructions of the edition (page size, staff size, system spacing, line breaks) and its ambitus signs at the start of each staff are not encoded.

Where the encoding differs from the edition

• Ambitus signs printed at the start of each staff in the edition (produced by its layout file) are not encoded.
• System and page breaks follow Verovio's layout, not the edition's (the edition's \break commands are not encoded).
• Voice names (cantus, tenor) exist only as LilyPond context names; they are recorded here but not encoded as staff labels, as the edition does not print them.
• The edition's transposed score (second \book of score.ly, with its own PDF and MIDI files) is not converted.
• The edition's melisma marks (\melisma ... \melismaEnd) only steer the lyric placement; they are not encoded as such.
• In the second pass, cantus verse 2, the edition writes the syllable '_nel' (measure 48); LilyPond prints it with a leading space, and the encoding keeps that text (' nel').
• The edition's MIDI file plays each repeated section once (the edition does not unfold the repeats); the comparison is made on that basis.
• The edition's MIDI tempo (half note = 120) 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.