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The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
by Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (Ex art library with sticker on the DJ spine and front and on rear endpaper; DJ and boards have light edgewear/bumping; inter
- ISBN 10
- 0804790442
- ISBN 13
- 9780804790444
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Hardcover. VG (Ex art library with sticker on the DJ spine and front and on rear endpaper; DJ and boards have light edgewear/bumping; interior is extremely clean; binding is solid.). Red and beige color-illustrated DJ with beige and red lettering; orange and beige boards with gilt lettering; x, 402 pp.; 20 unnumbered pages of plates. 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. -- DJ.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200630
- Title
- The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
- Author
- Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (Ex art library with sticker on the DJ spine and front and on rear endpaper; DJ and boards have light edgewear/bumping; inter
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0804790442
- ISBN 13
- 9780804790444
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, CA
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing, Illumination of Books, Armenian Genocide ; Armenian Genocide ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books and Manuscripts and Printing;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Gilt
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