Excerpt from Sequences From the Sarum Missal: With English TranslationsA young monk of S. Gall, named Nother, was led to attempt the composition of a new and better series of words, suitable to the Feasts of the Church, whence sprang the Sequences usually called Not kerian. Much has been learnedly' and ingeniously written by Dr. Neale and others about their metre, upon which I will not enter, su¿ice it to say, that the rules by which they consider them to be governed appear to me extremely vague, and to have been constantly infringed in practice, until the days of Adam de S. Victor, who lived about the middle of the 12th century, and reduced the sequence to a much more polished and rhythmical form. With out subscribing to Dr. Neale's dictum that Adam de 8. Victor is the greatest Latin poet, not only of me dimval, but of all ages, we may certainly rank his sequences very high, both as compositions of great devotional beauty and as elegant Latin odes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.