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The Making of ‘The Missing Pages’

The Missing Pages The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript From Genocide to Justice Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh 2019 436 pp. Stanford University Press The story of my new book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice starts on June 1, 2010. That day, I read the news that the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America had sued the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, seeking the return of eight illuminated pages from a medieval

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Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is an art history professor at the University of California, Davis. She is the award-winning author of The Image of an Ottoman City: Architecture in Aleppo (2004). Her writing has also appeared in the Huffington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Her new book, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, was published in February by Stanford University Press.

2 Comments

  1. Explain to me where is the honor of meeting the Atamian family who sold these sacred and priceless manuscripts for profit.
    The honorable thing for them to do was to take the pages to the Madenataran in Yerevan and place them in the gospel book where they belong.

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