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Harvard removes book binding made from dead woman's skin from library

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Arsène Houssaye's "Des destinées de l'âme" was published in 1879, however, the volume in question was bound in human skin by French physician Dr. Ludovic...
9 months ago

Harvard University removes human skin binding from book

BBC
The book, from the mid-1880s, was reportedly bound with the skin from the body of a female patient.
9 months ago

Harvard removes human skin binding from 19th century book

WWNY
Harvard University...
9 months ago

Harvard removes human skin binding from a book in its library

Scripps News
In a note inside the volume, its original owner said "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."
9 months ago

Harvard removes human skin from binding of old book

NBC Boston
Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of "Des destinées de l'âme," written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.
9 months ago

Harvard Just Removed A 150-Year-Old Book From Its Library — Because It Was Bound In Human Skin

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Des Destinées de L'âme was written by French novelist Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s about the nature of souls and life after death.
9 months ago

Anthropodermic bibliopegy: Harvard removes human skin book

How To Be Books
Harvard Library has announced the removal of human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye's book “Des destinées de l'âme” (1880s), held at Houghton...
9 months ago

Book made with dead woman's skin removed from Harvard Library amid probe of human remains found at school

CBS News
The book contains a handwritten note by its first owner saying, "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."
9 months ago

Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book

The Guardian
University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent.
9 months ago

A Book Bound With Human Skin Spent 90 Years in Harvard's Library. Now, the Binding Has Been Removed

Smithsonian Magazine
In the late 19th century, a French physician took the skin, without consent, from a female psychiatric patient who had died.
9 months ago