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 Collationes (Cassian)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Collationes (Cassian).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by John Cassian.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-24622-202-280): explicit 'in Collationibus Patrum, collat. xiv' - Cassian's Conferences with locator; direct