9783110177305
Bibliophiles And Bibliothieves: The Search For The Hildebrandslied And The Willehalm Codex (Cultural Property Studies) - Opritsa D. Popa
Walter de Gruyter (2003)
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Art treasures in war, Cultural property, World War, 1939-1945 - Art and the war, World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage

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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LoC Classification D810.A8 .P67 2003
Dewey 940.5318
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 58,00 €
No. of Pages 265
Height x Width 240 mm
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