Vol. 7 No. 4 December 2001

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD - 3     TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 5 A. Sazykin. The Message of the Three Sacred Mongol Lamas - 5 M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-bark from Bairam-Ali. II. Avadana and Jataka (part 5) - 12 P. Lurje. Arabosogdica: Place-names in Transoxiana as Written in Arabic Script - 22 V. Polosin. Unknown Numerical Aesthetics in the Design of Turkish Manuscripts - 30     TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 37 K. Kepping. Mi-nia (Tangut) Self-appellation and Self-portraiture in Khara Khoto Materials - 37     PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 48  E. Rezvan. Oriental Manuscripts of Karl Fabergé. Ill: Biographical Works and Portraits (part 1) - 48      ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 55  N. Serikoff. Image and Letter: "Pace" in Arabic Script (a Thumb-nail Index as a Tool for a Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts. Principles and Criteria for its Construction) - 55      BOOK REVIEWS - 67  La civilization islamique en Afrique de l'Ouest. Communications du Symposium International tenu les 27 - 30 Décembre 1996, Dakar, Sénégal. Ed. par Samba Dieng, préface par Prof. Dr. Ekmaleddin İhsanoğlu. İstanbul: 1999, XXIX, 430 pp. - Série d'histoire des nations musulmanes, No. 4. by I. Wojewódzki - 67     Manuscripta Orientalia in 2001, vol. 7, Nos. 1-4 (list of contributions) - 69

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AUTHORS

Dr. Ksenia B. Kepping - Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Tangut language and culture, author of a series of monographs and articles.

Mr. Pavel B. Lurje - Post-graduate student of the Ancient East Department at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specializes in Iranian languages.

Dr. Valery V. Polosin - Senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the Arab manuscript tradition, author of one monograph and numerous articles.

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.

Dr. Alexey G. Sazykin - Senior Researcher of the Turkic and Mongolian Studies Department of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in Mongolian literature and written tradition, author of several catalogues of Mongolian manuscripts and xylographs, author of monographs and numerous articles.

Dr. Nikolaj I. Serikoff - Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, assistant curator of the Oriental collections in the Wellcome Library for the history and Understanding of Medicine, specialist in Byzanti no-Arab relation in the Middle Ages and written culture of the Arabs, author of numerous articles.

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. Igor N. Wojewódzki - Chief Librarian in the library at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Semitic studies, author of several articles dealing with the history of Islamic and Judaic culture.