The Book of Enoch, its Second Temple Jewish origins, its 'Watchers'/Nephilim mythology, its Qumran attestation, its citation in Jude, and its canonical status in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church are all real and well-documented. However, no complete ancient Latin translation of the Book of Enoch is known to have existed in Merovingian Francia or anywhere else in this period — the text's only complete surviving version is Ge'ez, rediscovered in the West only in the 18th century via Ethiopian manuscripts, with earlier knowledge in the Latin West limited to scattered quotations in a handful of patristic writers. The 'Latin Book of Enoch' found beneath the Soissons palace, and Merona's absorption of it into her own memory as a 'Living Library,' are the novel's own fictional invention, not a claim about a real historical Merovingian-era Latin Enoch manuscript.