(The Hill) – The Harvard Library announced Wednesday it had removed a human skin binding from a 19th century book that has been in the building for decades. “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” a ...
Harvard's library said the human skin binding on one of its books was finally removed after nearly a century. The copy of the French book "Des destinées de l'âme" was bound with skin taken from ...
In 2014, the university drew jokey news coverage around the world with the announcement that it had used new technology to confirm that the binding was in fact human skin. The library ... The book ...
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Harvard’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, who was grieving his wife’s ...
Harvard University's Houghton Library officials announced in a blog post on Wednesday that one of the books in its collection is bound with human skin. Harvard scientists conducted a series of ...
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Harvard University explained its decision to remove the binding ... The practice of binding books in human skin - termed anthropodermic bibliopegy - has been reported since as early as the ...
Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the book’s binding no longer belong in the Harvard Library collections, due to the ...