A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

"Anthropodermic" books might sound ... s Houghton Library made news when the library announced that it possessed Arsene Houssaye’s Destinies of the Soul bound in human skin.The French novelist ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Getty Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed human skin from the binding of ... the library has made the book available to anyone who asked for it for any reason, according ...