Adam of Saint Victor

Adam of Saint Victor (; – 1146) was a prolific composer and poet of Latin hymns. A central figure of the sequences in high medieval music, he has been called "...the most illustrious exponent of the revival of liturgical poetry which the twelfth century affords."

Music and poetry Adam of St Victor's surviving works are sequences for liturgical use, not theological treatises.

Jodocus Clichtovaeus , a Catholic theologian of the 16th century, published thirty-seven of his hymns in the Elucidatorium Ecclesiasticum (1516). The remaining seventy hymns were preserved in the Abbey of Saint Victor until its dissolution during the French Revolution. They were then transferred to the Bibliothèque Nationale, where they were discovered by Léon Gautier, who edited the first complete edition of them (Paris, 1858).

Anglican Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench characterized Adam of Saint Victor as "the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the Middle Ages".

In Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams wrote that Adam "aimed at obtaining his effect from the skillful use of the Latin sonorities for purposes of the chant".

The translator of medieval hymns, John Mason Neale, described Adam of St Victor as "to my mind the greatest Latin poet, not only of mediaeval, but of all ages".

Editions The modern critical edition of the Latin text is:

English translations of Adam's work are in:

[includes translations of two of Adam of St. Victor's sequences in praise of the Trinity] [includes translation of Adam of St Victor, Sequences] Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3