Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm CodexWalter de Gruyter, 2003 - 265 páginas 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. |
Índice
Introduction and Acknowledgments | 1 |
Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex19392002 A Chronology | 5 |
Theyve Sown the WindAnd Now They Reap the Whirlwind | 9 |
Habent Sua Fata Libelli Books Have Their Own Destiny | 23 |
Countdown to Surrender | 38 |
Protect and RespectThese Symbols | 47 |
Of US Safekeepers Soviet TrophyCommissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers | 55 |
Enjoy the War the PeaceIs Going to be Terrible | 67 |
Ardelia | 127 |
From the Ashes of the Phoenix | 146 |
Return of the Wounded Warrior | 158 |
Eyewitness | 166 |
Ten Years Later Proof Proof and More Proof | 173 |
To Err is Human to Admit Divine | 187 |
The Owl of Minerva | 198 |
The Last the WorstDull Spoiler Who Was He? | 207 |
Hope Deferred | 78 |
Going Going Gone | 84 |
Belle of the Books | 96 |
The Professor | 111 |
The Countess of Camarillo | 119 |
Appendix | 223 |
Biographical Sketches | 225 |
Works Cited | 241 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
American Archives and Records Ardelia Hall Collection Army Bad Wildungen Bard Graduate Center Belle da Costa bibliophile Bibliothek der Stadt brandslied Breitenbach Bühler catalog cellar codices collector Costa Greene Coudres curator Davis dealer Department of Special diplomat Doctor documents Doheny Memorial Library Ex Bibliotheca Cassellana File Fulda Gauleiter German Goecke Gretel Mayer Gundersheimer Hesse Hilde Hildebrandslied from Kassel Ibid John Fleming John's Seminary Kalkbrenner Kassel Library Landesbibliothek Kassel Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Landeshauptmann later leaf Lessing Rosenwald Letter Liber Sapientiae librarian library director looted Military Government Morgan Library Murhard Murhardsche Bibliothek Museum & Library National Archives Nazi officer Philadelphia Pierpont Morgan Library Pusch Quedlinburg rare book Records Administration Reproduced by permission Roberts Commission Rosenbach Rosenbach Company Rosenbach Foundation Rosenbach Museum Rosenwald Selmer Shields Library Special Collections Stadt Kassel tion treasures Twaddell Universitätsbibliothek Kassel University of California vellum Washington Wiesbaden Wilhelm Hopf Willehalm Codex Wolf 2nd World York