Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex 1st Edition by Opritsa Popa, Winder McConnell 3110201909 9783110201901
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ISBN 10: 3110201909
ISBN 13: 9783110201901
Author: Opritsa D. Popa; Winder McConnell
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.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind”
Chapter 2: “Habent sua fata libelli” – Books have their own destiny
Chapter 3: Countdown to surrender
Chapter 4: “Protect and respect those symbols”
Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and marauding soldier
Chapter 6: “Enjoy the war; the peace is going to be terrible”
Chapter 7: Hope deferred
Chapter 8: Going, going, gone!
Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books”
Chapter 10: The Professor
Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo
Chapter 12: Ardelia
Chapter 13: From the ashes of the Phoenix
Chapter 14: Return of the wounded warrior
Chapter 15: Eyewitness
Chapter 16: Ten years later: Proof, proof and more proof
Chapter 17: To err is human, to admit, divine
Chapter 18: The owl of Minerva
Chapter 19: “The last, the worst dull spoiler, who was he?”
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