Bound in blood and skin

Dec 21, 2019

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A Latin Bible from Paris made around 1250-1270 by the atelier of Johannes Grusch

'And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in blood and skin That the wilderness is gathering All its children back again.'

Thus Leonard Cohen at perhaps his most lyrical in 'Last Year's Man'.

To be bound in blood and skin, to be fashioned from a living and breathing cre…

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