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 Sermones super Cantica Canticorum
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Sermones super Cantica Canticorum.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Bernard of Clairvaux.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-25675-625-643): Bernard of Clairvaux + work cue 'Cantic': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'Sermones super Cantica Canticorum'; cited in an objection (scholastic harmonization expected, not contest)