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Rare books covered with seal skin hint at a medieval trade network

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Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th century French monasteries are wrapped with seal skins.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey , founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France .

Researchers had thought they were wrapped with boar or deer skin.

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