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Confirmed: Harvard book bound in human skinConfirming a skin-crawling announcement last year, Harvard's rare-book library reported Wednesday that a late-19th-century meditation on the soul and an after-life is bound in human fleshPost to FacebookConfirmed: Harvard book bound in human skin 

 Confirming a skin-crawling announcement last year, Harvard's rare-book library reported Wednesday that a late-19th-century meditation on the soul and an after-life is bound in human flesh


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Arsène Houssaye presented a copy of his meditation on the soul and life after death to a doctor friend, who then had the book covered with skin from the back of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke.(Photo: Etienne Carjat via Wikipedia)
TWEETEMAILMOREConfirming skin-crawling news last year, Harvard's rare-book library reported Wednesday that a 19th-century volume about the soul and an afterlife is indeed bound in human flesh.In the late 1880s, French author Arsène Houssaye presented his 315-page meditation, Des destinées de l'ame, to Ludovic Bouland, a doctor and avid book collector. His friend then had the book covered with
of an unclaimed female mental patient who had died of "apoplexy" — a stroke, Harvard's Houghton Library
in May 2013.Bouland included a handwritten note with the volume, which a book collector deposited at the Houghton in 1934."This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman. It is interesting to see the different aspects that change this skin according to the method of preparation to which it is subjected. ..."Using a technique known as , Harvard's expert
Wednesday that they were 99.9% certain the binding is human and not parchment made from sheep, cattle, goats — or apes.The novelist/poet Houssaye's ultra-human work is the only one of its kind at Harvard.
that Bouland noted, from the 17th century, resides at the
in London.In April, Harvard
that a 17th-century Spanish tome in its law school library was bound in sheepskin, not human flesh as initially suspected.The binding of books in human skin — known as anthropodermic bibliopegy — dates to at least the 16th century, while the
of homo sapiens who were enemies, criminals or heretics may stretch back to the ancient Scythians.In the 19th century, bodies of executed criminals were routinely donated for medical education, and their skins were then given to bookbinders and tanners.
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哈佛大学图书馆发现首本人皮书
Scientists at Harvard have confirmed a 19th century book in one of the university's libraries is bound in human skin.哈佛大学科学家已经证实，该校图书馆一本19世纪图书的封面材料取自人类皮肤。
Conservators at the university carried out a series of tests on the binding, which left them '99.9% confident' the binding came from a human.哈弗大学管理员对该书封面做了一系列测试，称他们有&99.9%的自信& 肯定这本书的封面材料取自人类皮肤。
The book, Ars&ne Houssaye's Des destin&es de l'ame, which translates as The Destiny Of The Soul, is described as a meditation on the soul and life after death and is believed to have been bound in skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient.本书原名Ars&ne Houssaye's Des destin&es de l'ame ，翻译过来就是《灵魂的归宿》。据说这本书的主要内容是对死亡后灵魂和生命的沉思，其封面材料取自一个女精神病人的皮肤。
Scientists confirmed the binding on the book, housed in the Houghton Library, is human skin after using a technique known as peptide mass fingerprintings to analyse microscopic samples.这本书陈列在哈佛大学霍顿图书馆。科学家使用&肽质量指纹图谱&技术分析显微样品后，确认该书封面由人皮制成。
In a blogpost on the library's website, Heather Cole, Assistant Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts, claims Bouland bound the book with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who died of a stroke.希瑟&科尔是&当代图书&分馆的助理馆长。他在图书馆网站上的一篇文章中说道，卢多维奇用一位死于中风的女精神病人的皮肤制成了该书封面。
Houssaye is believed to have presented the book to his friend Dr Ludovic Bouland.据称当年是希瑟把这本书呈递给他的朋友卢多维奇博士进行封装的。
A note inside the book, written by Ludovic, reads: 'A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman.'书中留下了一张卢多维奇写的字条：&一本有关人类灵魂的书，值得用人类皮肤来封装：本书封皮是我用一个女人背部的皮肤制成的。&
In the note, Ludovic also refers to another book bound in human skin, S&verin Pineau&s De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis, which is in the Wellcome Library collection.在字条中，卢多维奇还提到了另外一本人皮书&&现存于英国伦敦维尔康姆图书馆中的S&verin Pineau&s De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis。
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