Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Animalibus
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Animalibus.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-22330-167-216): 'ut dicitur in XI De animal., lib. i, de Partibus animalium, cap. v': Aristotle's De Animalibus corpus cited with explicit locator; deployed in Aquinas's own voice