Harvard library removes human skin from book binding

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Harvard University has said that it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries.

A copy of the 19th-century book"Des Destinées de l'Ame" - or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death - was found in 2014 to be bound in the skin of a deceased woman.

The university said it was consulting with French authorities"to determine a final respectful disposition of these human remains". Anthropodermic bibliopegy - the practice of binding books in human skin - was once a relatively common practice, Harvard said in a 2014 blog post. Mr Bouland was said to have told Mr Houssaye in a note:"A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."

 

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