"Klaatu, verata . . .
Wow . . . it's the real Necronomicon Ex Mortis!!
From FoxNews' "Out There" Column:TACOMA, Wash. - And you thought your buddy's gross anatomy textbook was, well, gross.
Some unlucky Englishman stumbled upon a 300-year-old anatomy book of sorts in a street in Leeds that officers say was probably dumped after a burglary.
Except this book wasn't filled with pictures of all manner of human guts and gore, it was actually covered in human skin.
Most of the ... um ... meat of the book is in French, which was no surprise, as it seems that books bound in birthday suits were not a rarity around the time of the French Revolution.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy (a rather formal, disinfected way of saying human skin book) was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries for written accounts of murder trials (which were bound in the skin of the killer) or for anatomy texts (which were encased with the epidermis of a cadaver).
West Yorkshire Police said the ledger, which was handwritten in black ink, appears to date back to the 1700s. They hope to trace the grisly read to its rightful owner, whom they believe lives in the area.
Police were unable to comment on the book's subject matter.
Somehow, I doubt it looks like this though:
From FoxNews' "Out There" Column:TACOMA, Wash. - And you thought your buddy's gross anatomy textbook was, well, gross.
Some unlucky Englishman stumbled upon a 300-year-old anatomy book of sorts in a street in Leeds that officers say was probably dumped after a burglary.
Except this book wasn't filled with pictures of all manner of human guts and gore, it was actually covered in human skin.
Most of the ... um ... meat of the book is in French, which was no surprise, as it seems that books bound in birthday suits were not a rarity around the time of the French Revolution.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy (a rather formal, disinfected way of saying human skin book) was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries for written accounts of murder trials (which were bound in the skin of the killer) or for anatomy texts (which were encased with the epidermis of a cadaver).
West Yorkshire Police said the ledger, which was handwritten in black ink, appears to date back to the 1700s. They hope to trace the grisly read to its rightful owner, whom they believe lives in the area.
Police were unable to comment on the book's subject matter.
Somehow, I doubt it looks like this though: