The exhibit displayed in the National Academic Library of Kazakhstan evokes an ambiguous reaction. Within the framework of the Amazing Books and Manuscripts exhibition, its visitors can see a 16th century edition bound in tanned human skin.
A scientist of that time donated his body in 1532 for a manuscript in Latin, the Nur. Kz portal writes.
For a modern person, this seems at least strange, but in the Middle Ages it was a fairly common practice among scientists: to give your body after death for the benefit of science.
This scientist, for example, thus preserved his mark in history already at least until the 21st century.
The publication in a "wrinkled" cover of human skin of a reddish-brown color, however, horrifies many visitors to the exhibition, although it is a truly valuable and rare copy, which is now in the collection of the National Academic Library of Kazakhstan.
It is known that such rarities are in the libraries of Britain, France, USA, Australia and some other countries.
