Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves - The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex
De GruyterSivumäärä: 281 sivuaAsu: Kovakantinen kirjaPainos: Reprint 2015Julkaisuvuosi: 2003, 23.10.2003 (lisätietoa)Kieli: Englanti 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.
Foreword by: Winder McConnell
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