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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. 4, No 4, December 1998.
           CONTENTS
 
 TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 3
 
 G.-J. Pinault. Economic and Administrative Documents in Tocharian В from the Berezovsky and Petrovsky
Collections — 3
 
 M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, E. Tyomkin. Fragments of Sanskrit Manuscripts on Birch-Bark from Kucha — 21
 
 G. Stary. The Rediscovery of Yongzheng’s Letter of 1725 to Pope Benedict XIII — 27
 
 V. Uspensky. A Tibetan Text on the Ritual Use of Human Skulls — 35
 
 TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 41
 
 E. Rezvan. The Qur’ān and Its World: VIII/1. Contra Legem Saracenorum: the Qur’ān in Western Europe — 41
 
 PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS — 52
 
 I. Kulganek. Mongolian Folklore Materials in the Orientalists Archive at the St. Petersburg Branch of the
Institute of Oriental Studies — 52
 
 ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES — 55
 
 V. Jakobson. Computer Assyriology — 55
 
 PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 60
 
 Vlad. Polosin. A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of an Illustrated Psalter — 60
 
 BOOK REVIEWS — 67
 
 Manuscripta Orientalia in 1998, vol. 4, Nos. 1—4 (list of contributions) — 71
 Table of contents, Authors, List of contributions for 1998 PDF-files
 
 
 Keywords Manuscripta Orientalia, annotations
 
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