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VIDEO ALBUM DE MARGUERITE D’AUTICHE
PIERRE DE LA RUE
Mein herz all dit.
Ain schone kunstliche Underweisung in disem Büechlein, leychtlich zu begreyffen den rechten Grund zu lernen auff der Lautten und Geygen Wenen, 1523

ALBUM DE MARGUERITE D’AUTICHE
PIERRE DE LA RUE
MIJN HERT ALTIJT HEEFT VERLANGHEN

Margaret was born on 10 January 1480 and named after her stepgrandmother, Margaret of York. She was the second child and only daughter of Maximilian of Austria (future Holy Roman Emperor) and Mary of Burgundy, co-sovereigns of the Low Countries. In 1482, her mother died and her three-year-old brother Philip the Handsome succeeded her as sovereign of the Low Countries, with her father as his regent.

Brussels, Bibliothèque royale MS 228, the “Album de Marguerite d’Autriche,” is one of two chansonniers once owned by Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands for her nephew Charles (later emperor Charles V) from 1507 until her death. The other, Bibliothèque royale MS 11239, a much smaller volume, was probably acquired by her in Savoy upon her marriage to Philibert II in 1501.
MS 228, the “Album de Marguerite d’Autriche” was undoubtedly written for her in Flandres; its splendid illuminations in the Ghent-Bruges style include her portrait and arms (fol. 2), as well as borders decorated with daisies (“marguerites”). It contains music and poetry associated with her court in Mechelen and the courts of her brother Philip the Handsome (1478-1506) and his son Charles (1500-1558) at Brussels. The manuscript existed in complete form by 1523, since it is listed in a inventory of Margaret’s library taken in that year.
Since no corresponding entry is found in an earlier inventory of 1516 and 1523. The principal scribe, responsible for fifty-four of the fifty-eight compositions, is also associated with another music manuscript written at the Habsburg-Burgundian court, Vienna, Nationalbibliothek MS 18746. Three different hands are found in the remaining four pieces (Nos. 1, 31 and 43, 42)

Pierre de la Rue († 1518), who served the Habsburg-Burgundian court from 1492 until 1516 under Philip, Margaret, and Charles, is known to have composed fifteen of the pieces and probably wrote many of the anonymous chansons in the manuscript.

ALBUM DE MARGUERITE D’AUTICHE
PIERRE DE LA RUE
Mein herz all dit.

Ain schone kunstliche Underweisung in disem Büechlein, leychtlich zu begreyffen den rechten Grund zu lernen auff der Lautten und Geygen Wenen, 1523








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