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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

Popa, Opritsa D.
McConnell, Winder

Hardcover

Series: Schriften Zum Kulturgüterschutz / Cultural Property Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceHolocaust

ISBN10: 3110177307
ISBN13: 9783110177305
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Oct 23 2003
Pages: 281
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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