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art represents with a book-scroll. . . . The Old Testament itself
contained a large stock of metaphors from the book.” (p. 130)
It is naturally with the coming of paper in the twelfth century
and the ensuing increase of books that there is also an
efflorescence of book metaphors. Curtius dips here and there
among the poets and theologians and begins his section on the
Book of Nature (pp. 319­20):
It is a favorite cliché of the popular view of history that
the Renaissance shook off the dust of yellowed
parchments and began instead to read in the book of
nature or the world. But this metaphor itself derives from
the Latin Middle Ages. We saw that Alan speaks of the
“book of experience.” . . . Omnis mundi creatura / Quasi
liber et pictura / Nobis est et speculum. In later authors,
especially the homilists, “scientia creaturarum” and “liber