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William of Moerbeke translations and Aquinas’ works
by Wayne Hankey
Dates
1252-1254 Aquinas, Scriptum super libros Sententiarum
24 April 1260 Moerbeke trans. Alexander of Aphrodisias On Meteors of Aristotle
23 December 1260 Moerbeke trans. Aristotle De partibus animalium May –August 1260 Alexander of Aphrodisias, on Aristotle’s De Sensu, translated by Moerbeke, not used by Aquinas until 1268
1260-1265 Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles
1265 Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (ST) begun
1266 March Moerbeke trans. Commentary on the Categories of Aristotle by Simplicius
1266 and 1268 Aquinas, Expositio super librum De divinis nominibus 1266-67 Aquinas, Quaestiones de anima
1267 22 November Moerbeke trans. Themistius paraphrase on the De Anima
Nov 1267- Sept 1268 Aquinas, Quaestio Disputata de Spiritualibus Creaturis
1267 end – before Sept 1268 Aquinas, Sententia libri De Anima first use of the
Translatio nova (Aristotle)
QQ 75-89 ST I
Before the close of 1267 Thomas could have made use of Moerbeke’s version of the De Anima text and of his translation of Themistius’s paraphrase
Sept 1268 (Rome)-1269 (Paris) Aquinas, Sententia Libri De sensu et sensato
1268 18th of May, Moerbeke completes trans. Elements of Theology of Proclus 12 September 1268 Moerbeke trans. Commentary On the Peri Hermeneias
1268-1269 Aquinas, Sentencia super Physicam
1270 Aquinas, Tabula Libri Ethicorum
1270 Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi
Nov-Dec 1270 Aquinas, On the Unity of the Intellect against Parisian Averroïsm
1270-71 Aquinas, Quaestiones Disputatae De Malo (publication 1272) Dec 1270-Oct 1271 Aquinas, Expositio Libri Peryermenias unfinished Dec 1270-Oct 1272 Aquinas, Expositio Libri Posteriorum]
1271-72 Aquinas, Sententia libri Ethicorum 1269-72 Aquinas, Sententia Libri Politicorum 1271 Aquinas, Sententia super Metaphysicam
1271 15th of June, Moerbeke trans. Simplicius De Caelo
1272-73 Aquinas, De Substantiis Separatis
1272-73 Aquinas, Super librum de causis expositio
1272 and 1273 Aquinas, De Caelo et Mundo Expositio
1272 and 1273 Aquinas, Sententia super libros De Generatione et corruptione
1273 Aquinas, Sententia super Meteora unfinished 1280 Moerbeke trans. Tria opuscula of Proclus
1286 Moerbeke trans. Commentary on the Parmenides of Plato