CONTENTS of Vol.2 No.4

Texts and MANUSCRIPTS: Description and research

E.Tyomkin. Unknown Sanskrit Fragments from Central Asia

G.Stary. A Manchu Document from 1663 Concerning the Imperial Palace in Shenyang

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

E.Rezvan. The Our’an and Its World: I. The Problem of Reconstructing Ancient Arabian Cosmogonic and Anthropogenetic Lore

PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS

O.Vasilyeva. The National Library of Russia: New Acquisitions of Oriental Manuscripts in 1992—1996

N.Tumanovich. Persian Folklore Materials in the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Correspondence Round Table

E.Rezvan, P.Roochnik. ITISALAT Discussion of CD-ROM Protection/Piracy Problem

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

O.Akimushkin. A Manuscript of Yusuf wa Zulaykha by Jami in the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

BOOK REVIEWS

Manuscripta Orientalia in 1996, vol. 2, Nos. 1—4 (the list of contributions)