Now wolde y fayne

The manuscript the edition cites

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 191

  Folios

  191 (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml ('GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 191', 'No. 1, fol(s)/pages 191'))

  IIIF manifest

  iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

  Library’s statement

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  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 (212) and syllable (384) 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').
• Both voices carry the text: six stanzas on three lyric lines, as in the edition (stanzas 1-3 under the first statement of the music, stanzas 4-6 under the second); stanza numbers are encoded as verse labels. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition.
• The edition sets no time signature at the start, so LilyPond's default 4/4 applies; the edition prints it as the C sign, encoded as meter.sym='common'. The edition writes the change to 2/4 and back to 4/4 near the end of each statement in the upper voice only; LilyPond applies a time signature to the whole score and the edition prints it on both staves, so the encoding changes the metre for both staves at that point.
• The edition writes the music once per voice as a music variable and uses it twice; the encoding follows the written-out sequence measure by measure. Where the edition writes two bar lines at the same point between the statements (':|:' and then ':..:'), LilyPond prints the second; it is encoded as a double repeat bar line (right='rptboth'), and the final ':|.' as right='rptend'. The edition's MIDI file plays the two statements once each, and the MEI is compared with it without the repeats.
• The edition's key signature is given in LilyPond as d dorian (no accidentals); the MEI records only the resulting signature.
• 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, page 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.
• Voice names (cantus, altus) exist only as LilyPond context names; they are recorded here but not encoded as staff labels, as the edition does not print them.
• In the lower voice the edition writes a dotted half rest after the half note of measure 7 (and of measure 25), which runs a quarter past the bar line; the edition prints it before the bar line. MEI measures cannot hold a rest that crosses the bar line, so the converter splits it at the bar line into a half rest and a quarter rest (checks/conversion-report.json, restsSplitAtBarLine). The timing is unchanged.
• The edition's melisma marks (\melisma ... \melismaEnd) only steer the lyric placement; they are not encoded as such.
• The edition's MIDI tempo (quarter note = 140) 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.