Vol. 2 No. 1 March 1996

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.

CONTENTS

Yu. Petrosyan. Editor's note - 3   TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 5   Valery Polosin. Frontispieces on Scale Canvas in Arabic Manuscripts - 5 F. Abdullayeva. Some Linguistic Peculiarities of the Lahore Tafsir, Its Date and Provenance - 20     PRESTO THE HISTOR Y OF ORIENTAL TEXTOLOGY - 25   T. Sultanov. Medieval Historiography in Manuscripts from East Turkestan - 25     PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 31   V. Goreglyad. The Oldest Russian Collection of Japanese Manuscripts and Wood-Block Prints - 31 A. Trotsevich. A Description of Korean Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg University - 44     ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEWINFORMA TION TECHNOLOGIES - 49   N. Vorobyov-Desyatovsky. The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and the International Dunhuang Project - 49 V. Uspensky. Two Years of Cataloguing of the Tibetan Collection in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies: Some Problems and Perspectives - 51     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 54     V. Uspensky. The Illustrated Manuscript of the Fifth Dalai Lama's "Secret Visionary Autobiography" Preserved in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 54     BOOK REVIEW - 66       Manuscripta Orientalia in 1995, vol. I, Nos. 1-3 (the list of contributions) - 69

AUTHORS

Dr. Firuza I. Abdullaeva - Assistant 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. Vladislav N. Goreglyad - Head of the Far Eastern Dpt. of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chair of Japanese Philology of the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, specialist in the history of medieval Japanese literature and culture, author of the series of monographs and articles.

Prof. Dr. Yuri A.Petrosyan - Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history and ideology of the Ottoman Empire, author of the series of monographs and articles.

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. Tursun I. Sultanov - Leading Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Chair of the History of Central Asia and Caucasus of the St. Petersburg State University, specialist in the Central Asian manuscript tradition, author of the monographs and articles.

Dr. Adelaida F. Trotsevich - Leading Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in medieval Korean literary tradition, author of the series of monographs and 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 articles.

Dr. Nikolay V. Vorobyov-Desyatovshy - Head of the laboratory of the St. Petersburg Academy of Military Medicine, specialist in non-organic chemistry, author of the series of works in the field.

Dr. Vladimir Uspensky - Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of Mongolian and Tibetan manuscript tradition in its various aspects, author of the series of articles.