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. 5, No 4, December 1999.
TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 3
J. Musaelian. On the First Kurdish Edition of the ‘Sharaf-nāma’ by Mullā (Melā) Mahmūd Bāyazīdī — 3
M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali: I. The ‘Vinaya’
of the Sarvāstivādins (part 3) — 7
M. Hasani. A Unique Manuscript of the Medieval Medical Treatise al-Iktifā ' by Abū-l-Mutrib ' Abd al-Rahmān 20
Du Weisheng. The Ancient ‘Fengkui’ (Stitched) Books from Dunhuang — 25
TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 33
I. Petrosyan. Pre-Islamic Turkic Tradition in the Writings of the Early Ottoman Historiographers — 33
PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS — 36
M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Sanskrit Manuscripts from the N. F. Petrovsky Collection in the St Petersburg
Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 36
MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION — 40
N. Brovenko. On Changing the Means of the Berezovsky Collection Storing — 40
ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES — 47
H. Kaileh. A Feasibility Study for the Digitalisation of Arabic Manuscript Collections in Jerusalem — 47
PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 58
O. Akimushkin. A Copy of the ‘Early Dīwān’ by Jāmī in the Collection of the St Petersburg Branch
of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 58
BOOK REVIEWS — 66
Manuscripta Orientalia in 1999, vol. 5, Nos. I—4 (list of contributions) — 71
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