The Book of Sentences

Liber sententiarum (Sententiae ex operibus Augustini delibatae) · Prosper of Aquitaine · after 430 · other

Latin · domain: latin-jerome-augustine · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

No English translation was located. HOLLIS on 'Prosper liber sententiarum' returns Latin editions only: the Brepols text of 2025, the 1972 Turnhout 'Opera' volume that pairs it with the Expositio Psalmorum, and Migne's reprint; the one pre-modern rendering that appears is Russian (St Petersburg, 1787) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Prosper%20liber%20sententiarum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No FOTC, ACW or other English volume was found, and the collection is not part of the FC 7 volume that translates Prosper's Grace and Free Will alongside Vincent's Commonitory (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog.json?q=commonitories+Vincent+Lerins&search_field=all_fields).

A distillation of Augustine's teaching into short numbered propositions, the Liber sententiarum became the standard Augustinian proof-text collection of the Latin Middle Ages and fed the medieval florilegia and the scholastic doctrine of grace. English readers know the sentences only through secondary quotation, though the Latin is short and complete in Corpus Corporum.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, Parisiis 1844-1864) cps_2.ProAqu.SeDeExA

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Prosper of Aquitaine "The Book of Sentences" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997 · 1965 · eng	Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997. "Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form." New York, Harper & Row [1965]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990025664560203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Book of Sentences” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-prosper-sententiae