Research Catalog

Title

The missing pages : the modern life of a medieval manuscript, from genocide to justice / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh.

Author

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian,

Publication

• Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 402 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, plan, portraits; 24 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Antiquities
• Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 > History
• Art thefts > 20th century
• Art thefts
• Asia > Armenia
• Bible
• Bible. > History
• Hromklay (Turkey) > Antiquities
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian > History
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Armenia > History
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Medieval > Armenia > History
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Turkey > Hromklay
• Tʻoros Ṛoslin, active 13th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• "All translations from Armenian, Arabic, French, and Turkish are the author's unless otherwise noted."--Page 311.

Contents

Illustrations -- Prologue -- Survivor objects. artifacts of genocide -- Hromkla. The God-protected castle of priests and artists -- Zeytun. The lost world of Ottoman Armenians -- Marash. The holy book bears witness -- Aleppo. Survivors reclaim their heritage -- New York. The Zeytun gospels enters art history -- Yerevan. Toros Roslin, artist of the Armenian nation -- Los Angeles. The contest over art -- Epilogue -- About this Book -- Note on transliteration and translation -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

ND3239.A7

ISBN

• 9780804790444
• 0804790442

LCCN

40028959849

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries