Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. Ed. by I.Ye.Petrosyan, E.A.Rezvan, M.E.Rezvan, E.N.Tyomkin, M.I.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Vol. 9, No 1, March 2003.
TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 4
M. Rezvan. Qur’ān Manuscript A 1638 from the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of
Oriental Studies and the Practice of Istikhāra — 4
T. Pang, N. Pchelin. The Qing Imperial Credentials in the St. Petersburg Collections — 19
TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETA TION — 26
I. Tantlevskij. Melchizedek and the Teacher of Righteousness: Some Peculiarities of Messianic and
Eschatological Texts from Qumran — 26
E. Tyomkin. A Word about Bhāmaha — 54
LIBRARIES AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES — 59
Towards an exchange network of Arabic authority records. Round Table (Part I) — 59
N. Rodriguez. Propos liminaires. Opening Remarks — 60
M. Beaudiquez. Échange et réutilisation des fichiers d’autorité: quels principes promouvoir? — 62
N. Boddaert. Classiques anonymes de la littérature arabe — 69
The 3rd International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of B.Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884–1931) will take place at the IOM RAS on April 22–24. The conference program is now available.