Don’t judge a book by its cover — unless, of course, it’s made from human skin. Harvard University announced it removed a binding made of the skin of a deceased woman from the 19th-century ...

Anatomy Book’s Cover Is More Than Skin Deep. By M.L. Johnson . Jan. 15, 2006 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... Brown’s John Hay Library has three books bound in human skin ...

Harvard owns a book that’s bound in human skin. It’s sure of it, too. One of its curators announced today that tests on a book titled Des destinées de l’ame (Destinies of The Soul), which ...

The book in question is Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame, described appropriately enough as a “mediation on the soul life and after death,” The 19th century volume is believed to ...

Researchers say they've confirmed a 19th century French book that resides at an elite American university has a cover made from human skin. Here is the macabre story of how it came to be.

New tests prove what librarians have long believed: this book's cover is made of human.

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace. However, it turns out, after scientific testing ...

Hundreds of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming trading system, according a new study.