Though Adam of St. Vic­tor was one of the most prom­i­nent and pro­li­fic La­tin hymn­ists of the Mid­dle Ages, lit­tle is known of him. Writ­ers near­est his time de­scribe him as Brito, pos­s­ibly in­di­cat­ing a na­tive of Bri­tain or Brit­ta­ny. All that is cer­tain is that around 1130, af­ter be­ing ed­u­cat­ed in Par­is, he be­came, at quite a young age, a monk in the Ab­bey of St. Vic­tor, a well known school of the­ol­o­gy on the out­skirts of Par­is. He spent the rest of his life there, dy­ing some time be­tween 1172 and 1192.

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Hymns

1. Animemur ad ago­nem
2. Ave, Virgo sin­gu­lar­is
3. Heri mun­dus ex­ul­ta­vit
   • Death Shall Be Thy Birth­day Morn
   • Jesu, Word of God In­car­nate
   • Mingling with the Shouts of Earth
   • Yesterday the Happy Earth
   • Yesterday the World Elat­ed
   • Yesterday, with Ex­ul­ta­tion
4. Iucundare plebs fi­del­is
   • Christ­ians, Come, in Sweet­est Mea­sures
5. Laudes crucis at­tol­la­mus
6. Mis­sus Ga­bri­el de coel­is (at­trib­ut­ed)
   • Gabriel, from the Heav­en De­scend­ing
7. Potestate non na­tu­ra
8. Salve, Ma­ter Sal­va­tor­is
9. Stola reg­ni laur­e­a­tus
   • Decked with robes Such State Be­fi­tting
   • Glorious Apostolic Co­hort
   • In Roy­al Robes of Splen­dor
   • Laurelled with the Stole Vic­tor­i­ous
   • To the Apos­tol­ic Co­hort
10. Su­per­nae mat­ris gau­dia
    • Joy and Tri­umph Ev­er­last­ing
11. Vergi vere sub­stan­ti­vi
12. Vox so­no­ra nos­tri chori