Tag #Human Skin Book

What factors contributed to the book's rediscovery after decades, and what does this reveal about museum practices and cataloging?

The discovery of the second book, overlooked for decades, highlights challenges in museum cataloging and raises ethical questions about displaying anthropodermic bibliopegy. This practice, common in the 19th century, involved using the skin of executed prisoners to bind books. Harvard University recently removed such a binding, but Moyse's Hall Museum will not.