The Studentencodex is the most widely used

commercium book Commercium songs are traditional academic songs that are sung during academic feasts: commercium, commercia and tableround (University), tablerounds. Some very old commercium songs are in Latin, like ''Meum est propositum'' or ''Gaudeamus igitur ...

in the

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

part of

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. Most students use the editions published by the

Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond (KVHV) or the Catholic Flemish Students' Union is a political student society which concerns Flemish nationalism and conservatism. It accepts male and female members and has chapters in Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp, ...

(KVHV), which is composed of three parts: the ''corpsboek'' with songs of the most fraternities, the clubcodex (''blue pages'') and a part of more than three hundred songs. It is published in two editions: one with a green cover by the KVHV of

Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...

(used in the provinces of

Flemish Brabant Flemish Brabant ( nl, Vlaams-Brabant ; french: Brabant flamand ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Haina ...

Limburg Limburg or Limbourg may refer to: Regions * Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium * Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands * Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...

, and

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

) and one with a blue cover by the KVHV of

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

(used in

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and

West Flanders ) , settlement_type = Province of Belgium , image_flag = Flag of West Flanders.svg , flag_size = , image_shield = Wapen van West-Vlaanderen.svg , shield_size = , image_map ...

). Since the edition of 1993, they feature a common clubcodex and song part but have a different corpsboek. In Brussels, students of the

Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) () is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of the five universities officially recognised by the Flemish Community, Flemish gov ...

and the

Erasmus University College Erasmus University College (EUC) is a public liberal arts college situated in Rotterdam, South Holland. It is the undergraduate honours college of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, offering it's students a BSc degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences. ...

use their own codex with a black cover, which contains no religious songs in it due to the pluralistic position of these institutions of higher education.

External links

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List of songs (and lyrics) listed in the Brussels' codex {{Authority control Commercium songs Student societies in Belgium Student societies in the Netherlands