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A copy of De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis kept in the Wellcome Library, believed to be bound in human skin Anthropodermic bibliopegy —the binding of books in human skin—peaked in the 19th century. The practice was most popular amongst doctors, who had access to cadavers in their profession. It was nonetheless a rare phenomenon even at the peak of its popularity, and ...
A 17th-century book on female virginity at the Wellcome Library, rebound in human skin by Dr. Ludovic Bouland around 1865. An early reference to a book bound in human skin is found in the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach. Writing about his visit to Bremen in 1710: (We also saw a little duodecimo, Molleri manuale præparationis ad ...
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin is a 2020 non-fiction book by the medical librarian and death-positive advocate Megan Rosenbloom. Dealing with anthropodermic bibliopegy , the binding of books in human skin, it expounds upon Rosenbloom's research on such books and their ...
Never judge a book by its cover. Unless it's this one, anyway. Al Jazeera: "Something that might make your skin crawl ... a book cover made of human skin. The Houghton Library's copy of Arsene ...
An internal review into the library's stewardship of the book revealed that although it was only publicly confirmed to be bound in human skin in 2014 — in a "sensationalistic, morbid" blog post ...
Remember the human skin-bound spellbook from "Hocus Pocus?" Turns out it wasn't such a far-fetched movie prop after all. Until this week, a real 19th-century book bound in human skin lived at ...
The truth is stranger than any myth; most books bound in human skin come from respected 19th-century doctors, men acting with the approval of their peers and untethered by ethical qualms. The history of anthropodermic bibliopegy is the history of medical ethics, one of those histories where every law is written in blood.
Books with at least one recorded copy bound in human skin. Pages in category "Books bound in human skin" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.