Commercium songs are traditional academic songs that are sung during academic feasts: commercia and tablerounds.
Some very old commercium songs are in Latin, like Meum est propositum or Gaudeamus igitur.
In some countries, hundreds of commercium songs are compiled in commercium books.
Allgemeines Deutsches Kommersbuch (Germany) Le petit bitu (Belgium) Studentencodex (Belgium) Carpe Diem (Belgium) Codex Studiosorum Bruxellensis (Belgium)
See also De Brevitate Vitae Academic Festival Overture Im schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon Biernagel
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English and Latin commercium songs Medieval Latin Students' Songs Translated into English Verse by John Addington Symonds