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 Esther (Vulgate)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Esther (Vulgate).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Vulgate (Latin Bible tradition).
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23580-234-269): narrative appeal to the Esther story (Mardochaeus refusing to adore Aman, timens ne honorem Dei transferret); chapter not visible - book contact evidenced by the retold narrative