Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110177305
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 10/23/2003
Series: Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz / Cultural Property Studies
Edition description: Reprint 2015
Pages: 281
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years
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