04150nam 2200733 a 450 991045146210332120210525032911.01-282-19560-397866121956003-11-020190-910.1515/9783110201901(CKB)1000000000479026(EBL)316784(OCoLC)476107960(SSID)ssj0000111288(PQKBManifestationID)11137677(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111288(PQKBWorkID)10074710(PQKB)11656935(MiAaPQ)EBC316784(DE-B1597)32947(OCoLC)979969295(DE-B1597)9783110201901(PPN)175489092(Au-PeEL)EBL316784(CaPaEBR)ebr10194860(CaONFJC)MIL219560(EXLCZ)99100000000047902620030826d2003 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrBibliophiles and bibliothieves[electronic resource] the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex /Opritsa D. Popa ; with a preface by Winder McConnellReprint 2015Berlin ;New York W. de Gruyter20031 online resource (284 p.)Cultural property studies = Schriften zum KulturgüterschutzDescription based upon print version of record.3-11-017730-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.Front matter --Preface --Contents --List of Illustrations and Captions --Introduction and Acknowledgments --Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology --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 These Symbols...” --Chapter 5: Of US Safe keepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers --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?” --AppendixIn 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.Cultural property studies.World War, 1939-1945GermanyArt and the warWorld War, 1939-1945Destruction and pillageGermanyArt treasures in warGermanyCultural propertyGermanyElectronic books.World War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945Destruction and pillageArt treasures in warCultural property940.53/18Popa Opritsa D1037423McConnell Winder1037424MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451462103321Bibliophiles and bibliothieves2458398UNINA