TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 5 

E. Kychanov. Tangut Buddhist Books: Customers, Copyists, and Editors - 5

K. Solonin. The Masters of Hongzhou in the Tangut State - 10

I. Petrosyan. The ‘Mawlid-i NabI' by Süleyman Çelebi and Its Two Versions - 16

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 24

E. Rezvan. The Qur'an and Its World: VII. Talisman, Shield, and Sword - 24

MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION - 35

N. Brovenko. An Arabic Bible in the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies: the Problems of Restoration - 35

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 39

A. Matveev. Visual Arts and Computing. Works of Art as a Source for the History of Warfare: a Database Project - 39

 PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 62

O. Akimushkin. An Entire Library in a Single Binding - 62

BOOK REVIEWS - 70

Mauro Maggi. Pelliot Chinois 2928. A Khotanese Love Story. Roma: 1997, 88 pp., 4 Plates. - Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, LXXX.
by M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya - 70

Maria V. Toropygina. Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in St. Petersburg University. A Catalogue of the Arisugawa Collection. Tokyo: Benseisha, 1998, 112 pp.
by A. Mescheryakov - 71