I realize that this is a somewhat scatological text and which nevertheless should not have been collected already by Chema Jimenez in his bibliomaniac. However, even if we go out on a tangent again, something that the other side and it becomes too common, I gather at least curious that, beyond its content, there are books called as macabre or funeral. These books have bindings with emblems and engravings that refer to death and were made from 1538 to cover the harps and crafts of the Virgin. First of all say that what is contained here comes from an interview he gave Antonio Carpallo, professor of Library Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, to the publication Gaceta Universitaria in their number 541 of January 23 last, following the discovery of a book on Spanish law bound in human skin in the funds of Harvard University.

On the reasons that Professor argues for the use of these materials and the birth of their use, Carpallo responses are reassuring in stating that the use of this type of skin is quite rare and rare. According to him, mainly, use was made of human skin for the binding mainly during two periods of Western history: During the seventeenth and eighteenth century in France and Nazism.

Moreover, the grounds when the use of human skin are completely conflicting and contradictory. In one case serves for the humiliation of a person or race, while the other is due to the whim of someone who wants his skin after his death, be used for the decoration of your favorite book or your journal. As for the optimal conditions for using this skin, the professor warned that their treatment must be equal to the animal skin, should the Savannah, while has to belong to a young person, using the skin of the back preferably because it is a smoother and more uniform area.

For librarians scary, the text warns that the only way to distinguish one animal from human skin is through DNA testing since it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.