‘The Missing Pages’ Wins Gold Medal

by Karen Nikos-Rose
May 11, 2020

Illustrated "Canon Table Page" from the Zeytun Gospel — “Missing Pages”: T’oros Roslin (Armenian, active 1256-68), “Canon Table Page,” 1256, Tempera and gold paint on parchment, Leaf: 26.5 x 19 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.), Ms. 59 (94.MB.71), fol. 6. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, Ms. 59, fol. 6.

Book cover and Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh mugshot

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, professor of art history, has been named a gold medal winner in the history category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards, for The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, From Genocide to Justice (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Independent Publisher, a monthly digital publication, presents its Independent Publisher Book Awards, or “IPPYs,” in dozens of categories, from poetry to fiction and nonfiction — 425 winning titles in all this year, announced May 6. The awards are “designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers.”

Watenpaugh’s book reconstructs the journey of illustrated pages of the Zeytun Gospel from their creation in 1256 in present-day Turkey to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1994.

The book previously earned the Der Mugrdechian Book Award from the Society for Armenian Studies.

Karen Nikos-Rose is a senior public information representative in News and Media Relations, Office of Strategic Communications.

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