Which handwriting?  My uninformed hearsay recollection is that Aquinas could write a chicken-scratch half-shorthand that is a bear to read but also had a more civilized hand.  The desire to avoid dealing with the former, while still explaining the philosopher’s productivity, might lie at the root of the story that Aquinas could dictate different works simultaneously to multiple scribes.

 

I hope that some knowledgeable Neo-Scholastic on the list might be able clarify the truth behind the above legends.

 

                                                            --John Howe, Texas Tech

 

 

Hi all,