book of knowledge

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Traditionalists believe Divane Hafiz of Shiraz is the book of knowledge, containing everything from poetry to philosophy.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2012

Naturally, Ionides is a living book of knowledge on the ways of the snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the tympanum is the open book of knowledge from which light radiates in all directions.

From Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

If to plot out man's agency is to deface the book of knowledge, on the supposition of that agency existing, what must it be, supposing it exists, to blot out the agency of God?

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

The book of knowledge is not opened to her in vain.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady