Adam of St. Victor

J. M. Neale calls Adam of St. Victor the greatest of mediaeval poets. He says Adam was born in Britannia, whether Great or Little cannot be known, and that the school of the Abbey of S. Victor at Paris produced three of the great men of the twelfth century, Hugh, Adam and Richard. Neale thinks it probable that Adam died in 1192.

Neale notes that Adam's sequences were long thought to number 37 or 38, but that M. Gautier's edition of 1858 gives more than a hundred. This file gives Neale's English versions of ten of them from Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (3rd ed., 1867), each recorded with its translator and the Latin first line in the note.