B-Br II 2631 (no cat.nr.)

Manuscript, early 15th century, containing middle Dutch songs and Latin chants. The Latin chants are provided with Hufnagelschrift. It is ascribed (without certainty) to the tertiaries of Dordrecht. According to Gerrie van Dongen the penwork is from Brabant ('s Hertogenbosch or surroundings; Queeste 2001); according to Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz the penwork is familiar to that of NL-Uu 404.

Among the Latin chants: a Salve regina with verses and troped Benedicamus Domino-formulas (fols. 59v-63r); solemn readings for Christmas (fols. 63v-68v), followed by a Te Deum (fols. 69r-71v); there are also some Christmas songs. A 2-part O mater dei memento mei is on f. 62v; perhaps some of the other chants are isolated parts of polyphonic songs.

Decoration

Each Dutch song has a lombard circa three lines high, always blue. Each strophe within in song has a small lombard, over one line high, alternating red or blue. Each line within a strophe has a black capital letter with a bit of red.
For the Latin chants is a similar program (with the exception of the added ant. O flos florum that has a red lombard, the only red one in the book).
Curls etc to fill the lines are always red.

Penwork:
Dutch songs: fols 19r-29v: red penwork around a blue letter, with additional green for dashes etc. Fols. 30r-44v: penwork in a (greyish purple?) paint that has bleached out around a blue initial. Fols. 45v-50r: Red penwork around a blue letter, no green. Fols 50v-51r: bleached penwork around a blue initial. Fols. 52r-54v: red penwork around a blue initial. Fols. 54v: bleached penwork around a blue initial.
Latin chants: fols. 55v-87r: red penwork around a blue initial; from fol 61r onwards there is sometimes a bit of bleached penwork around a red initial, but mostly it is red penwork around a blue initial.
Dutch songs: fols. 87v-90v: red penwork around a blue initial.
Fol. 92v: ant. O flos florum: red initial with a bit of red penwork (probably 2nd scribe).

Literature

	RISM B IV/3 (1972), pp. 115-116, for the small 2-part O mater dei
	Anthologie van muziekfragmenten nr 39 (incl. facs.) and p. xii
	H. Joldersma & D. van der Poel: Sij singhen met soeter stemmen. Het liederenhandschrift Brussel KB II 2631, in: Nederlandse letterkunde vol. 5 (2000), afl. 2, pag. 113-137
	I. de Loos & D. van der Poel: Het liederenhandschrift Brussel, KB, II 2631: samenstelling en repertoire, in Queeste 8/2 (2001), pp. 97-119

As it is acquired by the Albertina early 20th century, it is not in van den Gheyn (?).