Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. Ed. by Y.A.Petrosyan, I.Ye.Petrosyan, E.A.Rezvan, E.N.Tyomkin, M.I.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Vol. 2, No 2, June 1996.
TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 3
V. Livshits. Sogdian Buddhist Fragment KRIV/879 No. 4263 from the Manuscript Collection of the
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 3
Valery Polosin. Muslim Bindings with al-Khālidiyānī Double Borders — 9
TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 13
E. Tyomkin. On the Term Itihāsa and the Problem of the Structure of the Mahābhārata Text — 13
PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS — 19
O. Vasilyeva. Oriental Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia — 19
O. Frolova. Some Notes on the Arabic Manuscripts and Collections in the Library of the Oriental Faculty of
the St. Petersburg University — 36
A. Sazykin. The Collection of Mongolian Manuscripts and Xylographs in the Ethnological Museum of the
Republic of Tuva in Kyzyl — 44
ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMA TION TECHNOLOGIES — 50
H. Braam, M. Vandamme. A Robust and Versatile Solution for the Digital Publication of Manuscript
Materials — 51
PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 56
A. Khalidov. A Unique 14th Century Literary Anthology Manuscript from Baghdad — 56
A. Sazykin. Illustrated Manuscript of “One Hundred Thousand Verses” in the Mongolian Fund of the
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 62
The 45th Annual Session of St Petersburg Arabists dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor Anna A. Dolinina (1923-2017) will be held at the IOM RAS on April 3–5, 2023. The conference program is now available.