AtDDtA23: A Document Written in Insults

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/29/07, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to hear the crying of lot # 181 at Wilkinson's Auction
> (http://www.wilkinsons-auctioneers.co.uk/htdocs/021207print.html):
>
> "A Rare & Macabre Early 17th Century Anthropodermic Bound Book in carrying
> box. The book entitiled; 'A True and Perfect Relation of The Whole
> Proceedings against the Late most barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and
> his Confederats'; Printed London 1606 by Robert Barker, printer to the King
> and believed to be bound in human skin, possibly that of the aforementioned
> Jesuit Priest; Father Henry Garnet. ..."
>
> The book has an eerie looking face on the cover (Father Garnet's face?),
> shades of the Shroud of Turin:
> http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_04/humanskinRP2711_800x800.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nz6n_pzLD4

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