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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




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.
To be honest I had the same question