There are a few texts from Abelard's school which are still inedited, notably the Sentences of Omnebene and ententie Parisienses II. The justification for printing the following short passage is simply that on occasion it has been referred to, but not cited, in the foregoing pages. In any new edition of Hermann's Sentences other passages besides this would need to be revised. Chapters 10 and 11 in the Rheinwald-Migne edition are extensively altered in two manuscripts, Pavia, Aldini 49, and Carpentras, Inguimbertine no, and wholly omitted in St Gall 69. The concern here is with the Carpentras manuscript which contains a late thirteenth-century copy of the work together with a fragmentary continuation not printed in the Rheinwald-Migne edition nor found in any of the other six extant MSS. of Hermann's Sentences. The fragment is short and it continues the discussion of the forgiveness of sin with which other exemplars of this work end. The continuation appears on f. 65v of the Carpentras manuscript and is itself manifestly incomplete. It is copied by the second of the two hands which have transcribed the text (ff. 55r–63v and ff. 64r–5v) and the copyist would appear to have failed to resume his task for the text ends in the middle of the first column off. 65 V; the rest of the folio is blank.

A marginal rubric mentions the particular problem under discussion: ‘Utrum sacerdos dimittat peccata.’ Reason, the author affirms, seems to prove that a priest can neither save nor damn a man. But the argument from reason is not expounded. Instead authorities are produced from the Old and New Testaments and from the writings of St Jerome.