Note 577 — PART III MOSLEM FEATURES IN THE CHRISTIAN LEGENDS PRECURSORY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY (continued 2)

It is noteworthy that the feature of the two books of record does not appear in the legendary lore of the West until the time of Bede, or eighth century of our era. Graf, unmindful of the Koranic precedents, considers that the myth was evolved from the Gospel metaphor of the “liber vitae,” to which, by way of contrast, was added a book of sins.