Vol. 2 No. 3 September 1996

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.

CONTENTS

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 3   Т. Sultanov. Mu'izz al-ansab and Spurious Chingizids - 3 L. Tugusheva. Early Medieval Uighur Records from East Turkestan - 8     TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 16   A. Matveev. Arabic Sources on Russes and Slavs: Problems of Interpretation of the Text - 16     PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 27   Yu. Petrosyan. The Collection of Oriental Manuscripts in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and its Investigation - 27 A. Kolesnikov. Oriental Documents and Letters of A. P. Bergé in the Archives of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 38     ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 43   E. Rezvan, N. Kondybaev. New Tool for Analysis of Handwritten Script - 43     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 54     M. Nikitina. The St. Petersburg Collection of Drawings by Korean Artist Kim Jungyn (Kisan) - 54      BOOK REVIEWS - 69

AUTHORS

Dr Ali I. Kolesnihov - Senior Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of the Iranian studies, author of a number of monographs and articles.

Dr Nourlan S. Kondybayev - System analyst, expert in the automatic optical recognition systems, author of the software and articles in the field, postgraduate student of Dr Efim Rezvan.

Mr Alexander S. Matveev - Postgraduate student of the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, personal student of Prof. Joseph Bell at the University of Bergen. Specialises in Arabic medieval history, author of a number of articles in the field.

Dr Marianna I. Nikitina - Leading Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the literature and culture of Korea, author of a series of monographs and articles.

Professor 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 a series of monographs and articles.

Dr Efim A. Rezvan - Research Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies, author of a number of monographs and a series of articles devoted to the problems of the Russian-Arabic relations, history of Islam and Oriental studies computing.

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 history and manuscript tradition, author of a number of monographs and articles.

Dr Liliya Yu. Tugusheva - Senior Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of the Uighuric studies, author of a number of monographs and articles.

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 a series of articles.

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