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

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The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Kseniia Petrova was returning from a two-week vacation in France, where she went to see a famed classical pianist perform, ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...