Vol. 7 No. 3 September 2001

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD - 3     TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 4 O. Akimushkin. Central Asian Manuscripts' Bindings (1730s - 1930s) - 4 M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali. II. Avadana and Jataka (Part 4) - 9      PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 15 Stephan Levitt. New Manuscripts from the Collection of W. Norman Brown Added to the Indie Manuscript Collection of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania - 15 E. Rezvan. Oriental Manuscripts of Karl Fabergé. II: Ragamala Miniatures of the Album (Muraqqa‘) (Part Two) - 39     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 46  Elisabeth Zack. Yusuf al-Maghribi's Egyptian-Arabic Word List. A Unique Manuscript in the St. Petersburg State University Library - 46      ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 50 Hala Kailch. The Creation of the Arabic Manuscripts Metadata Base - 50     CONSERVATION PROBLEMS - 60 Catherina Koch. The Restoration and Glazing of Turfan Fragments at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz - 60      BOOK REVIEWS - 71    Archivnye materially o mongol'skikh i tiurkskikh narodakh v adakemicheskikh sobraniiakh Rossii. Doklady nauchnoĭ konferentsii. Sostavitel' I. V. Kul'ganek, pod red. S. G. Kliashtornogo. Izdanie podgotovili I. A. Alimov, I. V. Kul'ganek, E. V. Pavlova. Sankt-Petersburg; Tsentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie", 2000, 152 str.  Archival materials on Mongolian and Turkic Peoples in Russian Academic Collections. Conference Papers. Compiled by I. V. Kulganek, ed. S. G. Klyashtorny. Prepared by I. A. Alimov, I. V. Kulganek, E. V. Pavlova. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Center for Oriental Studies, 2000, 152 pp. by I. Petrosyan - 71

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AUTHORS

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

Dr. Stephan H. Levitt - Expert in Sinhalese and Indie manuscripts. At present, a private tutor and consultant for the University of Pennsylvania Library, the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and the Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary, also an independent researcher, author of numerous publications.

Miss Hala Kaileh - Post-graduate student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'information et des Bibliothèque (Lion, France).

Dr. Catherina Koch - Restorer at the Conservation Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz; specialises in the restoration of Central Asian documents from Turfan.

Dr. Irina Ye. Petrosyan - Senior Researcher of the Turkic and Mongolian Department at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Turkish history, author of monographs and articles devoted to the history and culture of the Ottoman Empire.

Prof. 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 numerous articles dealing with Russian-Arab relations, history of Islam and Oriental studies computing.

Prof. Dr. Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya - Chief Keeper of the Manuscript Department at 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 numerous monographs and articles in the field.

Dr. Elisabeth Zack - Researcher at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo; field of scholarly interests - Arabic manuscripts and Arabic dialectology.