A rare 15th-century royal document from Louis XI's court was identified using advanced imaging after it went unnoticed for ...
Two years ago, Suzanne Hathon took a class on how to bind books. It was fascinating for her, not just because she loves books, but also because of her job as Sterling Heights Library’s public services ...
More than 20 organizations across Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida will present “A Binding Truth,” a documentary about the legacy of slavery and racial healing, at multiple locations from Sept. 10 to ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property deeds ...
Garfield County commissioners Tom Jankovsky and Mike Samson this week appointed two new public library trustees to represent Carbondale and New Castle, but they couldn’t agree on a Glenwood Springs ...
Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Jacobs See more ...
The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital ...
Harvard Library recently removed the binding of a book in its collection made from human skin. The book, “Des Destinées de L’âme” (“Destinies of the Soul”), has been in the university’s collection for ...
After decades of controversy, the Harvard Library has removed the human skin binding one of the most notorious books in its collection, “Des destinées de l’âme.” “Harvard Library acknowledges past ...
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Bouland took the skin used to bind the book without consent from a female patient who died in the hospital where he worked, according to a release from the Harvard Library. “The book has been in the ...
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