TY - GEN T1 - The missing pages : the modern life of a Medieval manuscript, from genocide to justice A1 - Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian LA - English PP - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1080273139 AB - In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom. Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art. OP - 402 CN - ND3239.A7 M57 2019 SN - 9781503607644 SN - 150360764X SN - 9780804790444 KW - Tʻoros Ṛoslin, : active 13th century : Manuscripts : History. KW - J. Paul Getty Museum : Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Tʻoros Ṛoslin, : active 13th century KW - J. Paul Getty Museum KW - Bible. : Gospels KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian : History. KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval : Turkey. KW - Christian art and symbolism : Medieval, 500-1500. KW - Cultural property : Repatriation : Armenia (Republic) KW - Manuscript fragments : California : Los Angeles. KW - Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923. KW - Enluminure arménienne : Histoire. KW - Patrimoine culturel : Restitution : Arménie. KW - Fragments de manuscrit : Californie : Los Angeles. KW - Génocide arménien, 1915-1916. KW - ART : History : Medieval. KW - ART : Subjects & Themes : Religious. KW - Trials KW - Manuscripts KW - Manuscript fragments KW - Cultural property : Repatriation KW - Christian art and symbolism : Medieval KW - Antiquities KW - Art thefts KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval KW - Manuscripts, Medieval KW - Turkey KW - California : Los Angeles KW - Armenia (Republic) KW - Armenia KW - Turkey : Hromklay KW - 500-1500 KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -