Abdullayeva F. A Turkish Prose Version of Firdawsī’s Shāh-пāта in the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg State University Library // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 3. No. 2. June 1997. P. 50—57.
The collection of Oriental manuscripts in the St. Petersburg
State University Library cannot compare with famous
St. Petersburg manuscript depositories, such as the National
Library of Russia and the St. Petersburg Branch of the
Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences).
Islamic manuscripts in the University are now concentrated
m the Oriental Department of the University
Library which serves the needs of the Oriental Faculty of
the University. The teaching of three Oriental languages —
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish — had been provided since
the foundation of the Imperial St. Petersburg University in
1819, and a significant amount of books and manuscripts in
these languages began to come to the University from
different sources...