Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves : : The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex / / Opritsa D. Popa.
In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies 2000 - 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz / Cultural Property Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) :; 1 Kte |
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| Summary: | In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110201901 9783110637854 9783110212129 9783110212136 9783110209457 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110201901 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Opritsa D. Popa. |