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 Long Commentary on the Metaphysics
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Long Commentary on the Metaphysics.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Averroes.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas engages Averroes's ('the Commentator') Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, in Michael Scot's Latin translation, throughout the Summa, disputing his reading of Aristotle on the eternity of the world.