Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves
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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves

The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783110177305
eBook ISBN
9783110201901

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Introduction and Acknowledgments
  4. Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939–2002 – A Chronology
  5. Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind”
  6. Chapter 2: “Habent sua fata libelli” – Books have their own destiny
  7. Chapter 3: Countdown to surrender
  8. Chapter 4: “Protect and respect those symbols”
  9. Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and marauding soldier
  10. Chapter 6: “Enjoy the war; the peace is going to be terrible”
  11. Chapter 7: Hope deferred
  12. Chapter 8: Going, going, gone!
  13. Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books”
  14. Chapter 10: The Professor
  15. Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo
  16. Chapter 12: Ardelia
  17. Chapter 13: From the ashes of the Phoenix
  18. Chapter 14: Return of the wounded warrior
  19. Chapter 15: Eyewitness
  20. Chapter 16: Ten years later: Proof, proof and more proof
  21. Chapter 17: To err is human, to admit, divine
  22. Chapter 18: The owl of Minerva
  23. Chapter 19: “The last, the worst dull spoiler, who was he?”
  24. Appendix
  25. Biographical Sketches
  26. Works Cited
  27. Index