Vol. 1 No. 2 October 1995

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.

CONTENTS

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 3   E. Kychanov. Unique Tangut Manuscripts on Moral and Ethical Regulations in the Tangut Society - 3 E. Tyomkin. Fragments of the "Saddharmapundarika-sutra" in the I. P. Lavrov manuscript collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 9 V. Polosin. To the Method of Describing Illuminated Arabic Manuscripts - 16     TO THE HISTORY OF ORIENTAL TEXTOLOGY - 22   O. Akimushkin. Textological Studies and the "Critical Text" Problem - 22     PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 29   M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. The S. E. Malov Collection of Manuscripts in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 29     ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 40   K. Lagally. Using TEX as a Tool in the Editing of Multi-Lingual Sources - 40     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 47     I. Petrosyan. An Illustrated Turkish Manuscript of "Iskender-name" by Ahmedi - 47      BOOK AND SOFTWARE REVIEW - 62

AUTHORS

Dr. Firuza I. Abdullaeva - Professor of Persian at the Oriental faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, specialist in the Iranian Philology and Islamic culture. Author of the series of works in the field.

Prof. Dr. Oleg F. Akimushkin - Head of the Dpt. of the Middle East and Group of the Kurdish studies of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history of Persian culture, history of Iran, Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan, author of the series of monographs and articles.

Prof. Joseph N. Bell- Professor of Arabic and Head of Section for Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Specialist in Muslim intellectual history and Sufism. Author of several books and series of articles in the field.

Prof. Sergey G. Kliashtorny - Head of the Turkish and Mongolian Studies Dpt. of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the ancient and medieval history and culture of Turkish peoples, author of the monographs and series of articles in the field.

Dr. Ali I. Kolesnikov - Senior Researcher of the St Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, author of the monographs and series of articles devoted to the history and culture of early medieval Persia.

Prof. Dr. Evgeniy I. Kychanov - Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history and culture of China and the Tangut Empire, author of the series of monographs and series of articles in the field.

Dr. Klaus Lagally - Prof, of the Institut für Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. Specialist in operating systems, programming languages, computer typesetting, author of the series of publications and software products.

Dr. Tatiana Pang - Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, author of the series of works devoted to the Manchu manuscript heritage, culture and philology.

Dr. Irina E. Petrosyan - Senior Researcher of the St Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, author of the monographs and series of articles devoted to the history and culture of the Ottoman Empire and its manuscript heritage.

Dr. Valery V. Polosin - Senior Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of the Arabic manuscript tradition in its various aspects, author of the monograph and articles.

Dr. Edward N. Tyomkin - Head of the Manuscript Dpt. of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history of ancient Indian culture and mythology, Central Asian philology, author of the series of monographs and series of articles.

Dr. Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya - Supervisor of the Manuscript Dpt. of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history and philology of ancient Central Asia, author of the series of monographs and series of articles.