"Alleluia nunc decantet" is a medieval sequence for the Common of Apostles. According to F. J. Mone (No. 667), the text is preserved in a fourteenth-century Reichenau manuscript among the Notkerian sequences, designated for the Feast of SS. Philip and James. It is also included in the Sarum, York, and Hereford Missals.
The sequence consists of 27 lines of varying length, 26 of which end in the letter "a." Notably, the text contains no reference to St. Paul, a omission Mone suggests is due to Paul not having been an eyewitness to the earthly life and ministry of Christ.
The Latin text was reprinted in J. M. Neale's Sequentiae ex Missalibus (p. 214), H. A. Daniel's Thesaurus Hymnologicus (vol. v, p. 335), and Joseph Kehrein's collection (No. 374). It was translated into English by Richard Frederick Littledale as "Let the Church sing Alleluia" for The People's Hymnal (1867, No. 198), signed under the initials "D. L."
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