Guillelmi Petri de Godino Lectura Thomasina. Distinctiones 1-22 libri Secundi

The so-called <i>Lectura Thomasina</i>, a commentary on Peter Lombard’s
<i>Sentences</i>, was composed by the Dominican William of Peter of
Godin at the beginning of the 14th century. The manuscript tradition
provides the text with the title <i>‘Thomasina’</i> because of the large
number of verbatim quotations from Aquinas’ writings. This text is not a
mere compilation of Aquinas’ <i>dicta</i>, but represents an attempt to
outline the fundamental elements of Thomas’ doctrine, giving them both
unity and coherence. For this reason, Godin’s commentary is an important
witness to the reception of Aquinas’ texts during the period between his
death and his canonization.



The critical edition of the <i>Lectura Thomasina</i>, presented here for
the first time, is based on an examination of the entire manuscript
tradition and is accompanied by an historical and philological
introduction.






The first half of the second book (dist. 1-22), edited in the present
volume, covers a number of topics (e.g., the eternity of the world, the
principle of individuation, or the soul-body problem) which have been
the subject of a lively debate between Thomists and anti-Thomists in the
late 13th and early 14th century.