Ther is no rose of swych vertu

The manuscript the edition cites

• Cambridge, Wren Library, Trinity College, MS O.3.58

  Folios

  roll (front), carol no. 13 (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml ('Agincourt Roll', 'No. 13, fol(s)/pages roll') and the library's catalogue record of MS O.3.58 (https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.58), which lists '13. Ther is no rose of swych vertu' among the thirteen carols on the front of the roll, carol 7 being 'Deo gracias Anglia. (The Agincourt Song.)')

  On this site

  Cambridge, Wren Library, Trinity College, MS O.3.58

  IIIF manifest

  mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk

  Library’s statement

  Trinity College, Cambridge

  Rights

  CC BY-NC 4.0

  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 (144) and syllable (148) matches the edition’s own MIDI file in pitch, onset and duration.

Engraving

Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b, 1 page

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.
• The burden ('Ther is no rose of swych vertu / As is the rose that bare Jhesu') is sung by all three voices and carries its text under each of them; the verse that follows is set for cantus and tenor, with the five stanzas under the cantus as lyric lines 1 to 5 and their stanza numbers encoded as verse labels. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition.
• The piece begins with a quarter-note upbeat, so the double bar line after the burden and the final bar line fall inside a measure, where LilyPond prints them. 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, which is the number LilyPond counts; the last measure of the piece is incomplete (metcon='false').
• The altus sings only the burden. LilyPond keeps its staff to the end of the score with nothing in it and, because the edition's layout block sets \RemoveEmptyStaves, does not print it in the systems where it is empty. The MEI fills the altus with measure-long space (mSpace) in every measure after the burden and records the setting as scoreDef optimize='true'.
• The edition writes the changes to 9/4 and back to 6/4 in the cantus and the tenor; they are encoded once for the score.
• 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) 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 manual line breaks (\break) are not encoded.
• Voice names (cantus, altus, tenor) 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 inside a measure, the measure is encoded as two measures with metcon='false' (checks/conversion-report.json, measuresSplitAtInnerBarLines); the timing is unchanged.
• After the burden the altus staff holds measure-long space (mSpace) rather than nothing (checks/conversion-report.json, emptyMeasuresAfterTheVoiceEnds).
• 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 = 110) is not encoded.
• Verovio may draw lyric hyphens and extender lines in other places than LilyPond, which drops hyphens where space is short. In Verovio's rendering the extender line after the tenor's last syllable of the burden ('Jhe-su.') runs on under the tenor's verse, which has no text; in the edition it ends with the tied note. The MEI encodes the extender as written (syl con='u').

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.