Vol. 4 No. 1 March 1998

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research

CONTENTS

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 3 N. Tumanovich. An Indian Collection of Persian Folk Tales - 3 A. Sadykhova. A Manuscript of "Tales of Some Lovers of the Past" in the Collection of the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg University - 9 Sh. Iakerson. An Unknown List of Hebrew Books - 17     TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 26 E. Rezvan. The Qur'an and Its World: V. Language, the Unconscious and the "Real World" - 26     PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 40 V. Kushev. The Formation and Study of the Afghan Manuscript Collection in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 40     ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 50 J. Gippert. Digitization of Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection - 50     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 58  A. Mikhaylova. An Illustrated Arabic Manuscript of a Translation of a Seventeenth-Century Greek Chronograph - 58      BOOK REVIEWS - 64 Scribes et manuscrits du Moyen-Orient, sous la direction de François et Francis Richard. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997, 399 pp. by A. Khalidov - 64 Francoise Briquel-Chatonnet. Manuscrits syriaques. Catalogue. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997, 264 pp. by E. Mescherskaya - 66

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AUTHORS

Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert - at present Professor of comparative linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat (Frankfurt/M), specialist in the field of Indo-Germanic textology and philology, expert in Japanese and Chinese studies. He is an author of several computer programs for processing texts in European and Eastern languages.

Dr. Shimon M. Iakerson - Senior Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history of Hebrew culture, expert in the field of the Hebrew manuscript and first printed book tradition, author of a series of monographs and articles.

Prof. Dr. Anas B. Khalidov - Head of the Near Eastern Department of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of Arabic manuscript tradition, culture and literature, author of manuscript catalogues, monographs, and articles.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir V. Kushev - Chief Researcher of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Iranian studies, expert in Afghan literature and culture. He is an author of a series of catalogues of manuscripts, monographs and articles.

Prof. Dr. Elena N. Mescherskaya - Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in Syriac literature and culture, author of two monographs and a series of articles in the field.

Mrs. Alexandra I. Mikhaylova - former researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Arabic manuscripts and literature, author of two catalogues of Arabic manuscripts and a series of articles.

Dr. Efim A. Rezvan - Deputy 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 articles dealing with Russian-Arab relations, the history of Islam and Oriental studies computing.

Dr. Arzu A. Sadykhova - Senior Lecturer on the Arabic language and literature at the North-Western Personnel Centre (St. Petersburg), specialist in Arabic literature, author of a number of articles in the field.

Prof. Dr. Nataliya N. Tumanovich - Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the Persian history and literature, author of a number of monographs and articles in the field.