Harvard university library books bound in human skin skin#
It is interesting to see the different aspects that change this skin according to the method of preparation to which it is subjected. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. "This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance.
His friend then had the book covered with skin from the back of an unclaimed female mental patient who had died of "apoplexy" - a stroke, Harvard's Houghton Library reported in May 2013.īouland included a handwritten note with the volume, which a book collector deposited at the Houghton in 1934. Experts at Harvard said this week that they have confirmed that a 19th-century book housed in one of the university’s libraries is bound in human skin. Recent tests confirmed that a book in Harvard University's Houghton Library is bound in human skin. Scientists and conservators carried out a series of tests on Houghton Library's copy. Go ahead and judge this book by its cover if it makes your skin crawl. In the late 1880s, French author Arsène Houssaye presented his 315-page meditation, Des destinées de l'ame, to Ludovic Bouland, a doctor and avid book collector. New York: A 19th-century book kept in one of Harvard University's libraries is bound in human skin, experts say. Confirming skin-crawling news last year, Harvard's rare-book library reported Wednesday that a 19th-century volume about the soul and an afterlife is indeed bound in human flesh.
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