A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

Researchers investigated 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts from an abbey in France that were clad in furry outer covers. Matthew Collins In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a ...

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It was subjected to various revisions during the Byzantine Empire, some of them recasting it into poetical form in Medieval Greek vernacular. According to researchers, the manuscript is a romance ...