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Outlines of Formal Logic

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pp. 50-1 discusses division (cf. Fr. G.-L.'s Mystère p. 255 ¶5 on accidental vs. necessary (per se) division, related to classification.)

from John of St. Thomas's Ars Logica (Reiser ed.)

Terence Parson's Articulating Medieval Logic mentions Jean Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), e.g., on p. 5fn6:

Aquinas did not discuss general principles of logic much. A full set of views are laid out by his follower John of Saint Thomas (Jean Poinsot) in a very competent work from the early 1600s [Outlines of Formal Logic]; the logical doctrines laid out there mesh nicely with the ones [Parsons] discusse[s in this book]…