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A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming, ancient system of global trade, according a new study.
Many of the more than 1,000 leathery tombs on display at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne were made with seal and walruses skin from areas such as Greenland and Scandinavia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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The hair-raising 13th century reads were previously thought to be bound with local boar and deer skin, the report states.
Books written by monks in the 13th century were found to be made with “hairy” animal skin. Ãlodie Leveque, Royal Society
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