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 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 ...