Legal settlement with Armenian church lets Getty Museum keep prized medieval Bible pages

One of the eight illustrated table of contents pages from a 750-year-old Armenian Bible that the Getty Museum acquired in 1994. The Getty has reached a legal settlement with an American branch of the Armenian Apostolic Church in which the church is being recognized as owner -- but is donating the works to the Getty.

Illustrated Armenian Bible page

One of the eight illustrated table of contents pages from a 750-year-old Armenian Bible that the Getty Museum acquired in 1994. The Getty has reached a legal settlement with an American branch of the Armenian Apostolic Church in which the church is being recognized as owner -- but is donating the works to the Getty.

(J. Paul Getty Trust)

By Mike Boehm contact the reporter

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