The six articles that comprise Book 2, Distinction 1, Quetion 1 of Aquinas' Writings on the 'Sentences' of Peter Lombard (Scriptum super libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi) represent his earliest and most succinct account of creation. These texts contain the essential Thomistic doctrines on the subject, and are here translated into English for the first time, along with an introduction and analysis.