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          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 1, March 1999. 
           CONTENTS
 
 EDITORIAL BOARD — 3
 
 Lives Devoted to Learning — 3
 
 TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 7
 
 Val. Polosin.  “All is Numbers”? An Unknown Numerical Component in the Design of Medieval Arabic
Manuscripts — 7
 
 O. Scheglova. Lithograph Versions of Persian Manuscripts of Indian Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century — 12
 
 T. Sultanov. Authors and Authorship in Persian and Turkic Historical Writings — 23
 
 E. Vasilyeva. The First Persian, French and Russian Editions of the “Sharaf-nāma” — 27
 
 TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 32
 
 E. Rezvan. The Qur'ān and Its World: VIII/2. West-Őstlichen Divans (the Qur'ān in Russia) — 32
 
 PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 63
 
 A. Khalidov. An Arabic Composite Manuscript of Tales from the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies — 63
 
 BOOK REVIEWS — 70
 Contents; Lives Devoted to Learning; Authors PDF-files
 
 
 Keywords Manuscripta Orientalia, annotations
 
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