UID:
almafu_9959240145702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (284 p.)
Ausgabe:
Reprint 2015
ISBN:
1-282-19560-3
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9786612195600
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3-11-020190-9
Serie:
Cultural property studies = Schriften zum Kulturguterschutz
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations and Captions --
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Introduction and Acknowledgments --
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Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology --
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Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” --
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Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny --
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Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender --
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Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” --
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Chapter 5: Of US Safe keepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers --
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Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” --
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Chapter 7: Hope Deferred --
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Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! --
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Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” --
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Chapter 10: The Professor --
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Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo --
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Chapter 12: Ardelia --
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Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix --
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Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior --
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Chapter 15: Eyewitness --
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Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof --
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Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine --
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Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva --
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Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?” --
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Appendix
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-11-017730-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110201901
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