I’ve been digging into some pretty dark historical archives lately, but this one actually gave me chills. It’s a 16th-century manuscript sitting in a library in Kazakhstan. Usually, these 'human skin' stories turn out to be fake, but not this one. The National Medical Science Center in Astana actually ran lab tests and confirmed it: The cover is real human back skin. The book belonged to an Italian notary named Petrus Puardus in 1532. Here’s the weirdest part though… Out of 330 pages, experts in France have only been able to decipher 10 pages. And those 10 pages are just boring financial records and mortgages.
Seriously, who binds a simple debt ledger in human skin? It doesn't add up. Why go through that macabre process just for some tax info? I can't help but wonder if the mundane stuff at the beginning is just a 'cover' for what’s in the other 320 pages that no one can read yet.
Has anyone else looked into this specific case? The energy behind an object like this must be insane. I'm honestly obsessed with what's actually written in those hidden pages.
Image Credits & Verified Sources:
- Photo Credit: Meiramgul Kussainova / Anadolu Agency (AA)
- Source 1:Daily Sabah – Kazakhstan displays mysterious manuscript with human skin cover
- Source 2: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/dunya/kazakistan-da-insan-derisiyle-kapli-5-asirlik-el-yazmasi-gizemini-koruyor/2861031
by bortakci34
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One of my favorite phrases that I learned years ago: “Anthropodermic Bibliopegy” – the practice of binding books in human skin
Sounds like occultism but idk. Some cultures would make leather from dead humans like in war.
It would be hard for me not to try and steal that book, and I hate thieves
Its just leather. Humans aren’t more special than any other life.
> Here’s the weirdest part though… Out of 330 pages, experts in France have only been able to decipher **10 pages**
I think you misread the articles, this statement is not accurate.
The Kazakh researchers that examined the book initially only read 10 pages before sending the manuscripts to experts on ancient Latin (which the book is written in).
The way you worded that sentence makes it sound more mysterious than it actually is. The book is written in ancient latin, and they know that. The Kazakh researchers just aren’t experts in ancient latin so they sent it off to France to be further studied, and we do not know what those French researchers have to say about it yet.
From the article you linked;
> Tölepbay stated that they have sent the manuscript to a special research institute in France for further analysis, adding that based on the first pages they were able to read, it was assessed that the book contained general information about financial transactions such as credit and mortgages. However, the manuscript has not yet been fully deciphered.
“if you don’t pay me your debts, I’ll skin you and use your skin to bind my ledger”
Attend tu n’as pas vu les lampes de chevet faites avec le grand père de Netanyahou