Vol. 8 No. 1 March 2003

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD - 3      TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 4 M. Rezvan. Qur'an Manuscript A 1638 from the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Practice of Istikhara - 4 T. Pang, N. Pchelin. The Qing Imperial Credentials in the St. Petersburg Collections - 19     TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETA TION - 26  I. Tantlevskij. Melchizedek and the Teacher of Righteousness: Some Peculiarities of Messianic and Eschatological Texts from Qumran - 26 E. Tyomkin. A Word about Bhāmaha - 54     LIBRARIES AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - 59  Towards an exchange network of Arabic authority records. Round Table (Part I) - 59 N. Rodriguez. Propos liminaires. Opening Remarks - 60 M. Beaudiquez. Échange et réutilisation des fichiers d'autorité: quels principes promouvoir? - 62 N. Boddaert. Classiques anonymes de la littérature arabe - 69      BOOK REVIEWS - 70

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AUTHORS

Dr. Marcelle Beaudiquez - Conservateur général des bibliothèques, directrice de l'Agence bibliographique nationale, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Présidente de la Commission générale Information et documentation (CG46) de l'Association française de normalisation (AFNOR). Auteur d'ouvrages professionnels et de travaux dans le cadre de l'IFLA.

Dr. Nadine Boddaert - Conservateur en chef à la Bibliothèque nationale de France responsable des autorités titres uniformes à l'Agence bibliographique nationale. Membre du comité permanent de la section de catalogage de l'IFLA. Elle pilote un groupe de travail pour la réédition des listes de classiques anonymes. Elle est l'auteur de plusieurs contributions sur le catalogage à des congrès de bibliothécaires.

Dr. Shimon M. Iakerson - Senior Researcher at 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.

Dr. Tatiana A. Pang - Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Manchu manuscripts and culture, author of a number of monographs and articles in the field.

Dr. Nikolaj G. Pchelin - Junior Researcher at the Oriental department of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), author of several publications on the history of the Jesuit missionaries in China.

Mrs Maria E. Rezvan - MA, Postgraduate student at the Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Ethnography at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (St. Petersburg), Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the Qur'anic studies and Islamic magic, author of a series of articles in the field.

Dr. Nathalie Rodriguez - Conservateur des bibliotheques, chef du service Afrique et Moyen-Orient à la Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues orientales de Paris. Secrétaire du MELCOM International. Animatrice de la table ronde Vers un riseau d'èchange des autorités auteurs et litres arabes.

Prof. Dr. Igor R. Tantlevskij - Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the St. Petersburg State University, Director of the International Centre of Biblical and Jewish Studies, specialist in Biblical studies, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea scrolls, the religion, history, and culture of Judaea in the Hellenistic and cat К Roman periods, author of a number of monographs and numerous articles in the fields.

Dr. Edvard N. Tyomkin - Senior Researcher of the Manuscript Department at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history of ancient culture and mythology of India, in Central Asia philology, author of a series of monographs and articles.

Dr. Sara Yontan-Musnik - Conservateur, chargée des collections turques et conseillère au Service des langues orientales du Département Littérature et Arts, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Organisatrice locale de la Conférence 2002 du MELCOM International.