Vol. 10 No. 1 March 2004
Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research.
CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL BOARD - 3 |
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TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 4
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A. Kudelin. Arabic Literature: Poetics and Stylistics. I: Medieval Arabic Graphic Culture (Pictorial Figures to Drawing Script) - 4
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M. Reisner. The Life of the Text and the Fate of Tradition. II: "Old Age Qastda" by Rudaki (the Standard and Its Deviation) - 12
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PRESENTING THE COLLECTION - 19
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A. Sinitsyn, E. Yamanashi. Paintings by Kawahara Keiga and Other Early 19th Century Japanese Artists in the Johan Frederick van Overmeer Fisscher Collection (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) - 19
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PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 32
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E. Rezvan. New folios from "‘Uthmanic Qur'an" I. (Library of Administration for Muslim Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan) - 32
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SCRIPTS, PAGE SETTINGS AND BINDINGS OF MIDDLE-EASTERN MANUSCRIPTS
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Papers of the Third International Conference on Codicology and Palaeography of Middle-Eastern Manuscripts, Bologna, 4-6 October, 2000 (part III) - 42
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I. Afshar. Inscriptions on the Covers of Islamic Manuscripts: An Introductory Study - 42
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T. Tunsch. Datierung und Herkunft der mamlukischen Einbande im Museum fur Islamische Kunst in Berlin - 52
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T. Stanley. Page-setting in Late Ottoman Qur'ans. An Aspect of Standardization - 56
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M. Efthymiou. Quelques réflexions sur les reliures d'Asie Centrale dans les fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France - 63
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BOOK REVIEWS - 71 |
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AUTHORS
Prof. Iraj Afshar - Former director of the Central University Library, University of Tehran. Specialist in history of the book in the Iranian world.
Miss Marie Efthymiou - Doctoral student at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Research on the history of the Qur'an in Central Asia.
Prof. Dr. Alexander B. Kudelin - Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the World Literature Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the history of the Arabic literature, author of the series of monographs in the field.
Prof. Dr. Marina L. Reisner - Professor of the Department of Iranian Philology at the State Moscow University Institute of Asian and African Studies, specialist in medieval Persian poetry and culture, author of numerous publications in the field.
Prof. Dr. Efim A. Rezvan - Deputy Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), 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. Alexander Yu. Sinitsyn - Senior Researcher of the Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Ethnography Department of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in samurai culture and traditions, author of series of works in the field.
Mr. Tim Stanley - Curator of Islamic art, Victoria and Albert Museum. Specialist in manuscript production in the Ottoman empire.
Dr. Thomas Tunsch - Curator, Museum für islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Specialist in Mamluk bookbindings and interior decorations of the Turkish Rococo period.
Dr. Emiko Yamanashi - Head of Trans Disciplinary Research Section, Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, specialist in the history of Japanese art, author of the series of works in the field. | 
