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Author: Opritsa D. Popa Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110201909 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 284
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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.
Author: Opritsa D. Popa Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110201909 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Author: Travis McDade Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190239719 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 229
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In Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. Both a fast-paced, true-life thriller, Thieves of Book Row provides a fascinating look at the history of crime and literary culture.
Author: Walter I. Farmer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110893509 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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Item discusses life at the Wiesbaden Collecting Point in Germany, where cultural property and art works were collected and held at the end World War II. In November 1945 the Director of the Collection Point (the author) received a telegram ordering him to send 200 premier German-owned art works to Washington. He and his officers resisted this command with a written protest that became known as the Wiesbaden Manifesto.
Author: Joel Silver Publisher: ISBN: 9781584562955 Category : Book collecting Languages : en Pages : 0
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"A history of the business relationship between American bookseller Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and collector Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., from the 1920s through 1940s. Includes a list of books and manuscripts Lilly purchased from the Rosenbach Co. and an index. Illustrated throughout in grayscale, with a section of color plates"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Courtly love in literature Languages : fr Pages : 468
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Includes reports on the business of the Society and its Congresses, it membership directory, book reviews, and an annual bibliography of courtly literature 1985-
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