Abstract
The manuscript Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Handschriftensammlung, Ms. 9814 includes a section compiled under the supervision of Petrus Alamire that contains five motets and one anonymous chanson, Plus oultre. The works are anomalous within Alamire’s output, copied as they are on a series of separate paper folios. The essay demonstrates that the anonymous chanson, inspired by the motto adopted by Archduke Charles at the age of sixteen, is unlikely to be by the recently retired court composer Pierre de la Rue. It further documents how most of the non-Alamire works included in the manuscript are directly connected to later members of the Habsburg dynasty, strengthening the likelihood that the Alamire portions of the manuscript were not transmitted through the Fugger family, as usually assumed, but via imperial channels. The texts of the Alamire motets are shown to reflect the image of the young Charles and to mirror the sentiments of the Plus oultre chanson, thereby unifying the collection.
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