The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor, vol. I (1881)

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The twelfth-century sequences of Adam of St. Victor are the summit of medieval liturgical poetry — Dies irae’s great ancestors, sung at Paris for centuries. Digby S. Wrangham gives Gautier’s Latin text with English translations in the original metres on facing pages, hymn by hymn for the church year. Volume I of three, London 1881.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1881 London (Kegan Paul) edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.