CONTENTS of Vol.3 No.4

Texts and MANUSCRIPTS: Description and research

S.Levitt. Sinhalese Painted Wooden Bookcovers

T.Sultanov. Turkic Versions of the Tarikh-i Rashidi in the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

Vladimir Polosin. Two Late Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Fiscal Documents from the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

E.Rezvan. The Qur’an and Its World: IV. “Raise Not Your Voices above the Prophet's Voice” (Society, Power and Etiquette Norms)

PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS

T.Deryagina, O. Frolova. Antoni Muchliñski and His Collection of Arabic Manuscripts in the St. Petersburg University Library

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

M.Carter. The Platonic Edition: Some Consequences of Computer Editing for Text-Based Scholarship in Arabic Grammar

Presenting the MANUSCRIPT

O.Bolshakov. The St. Petersburg Manuscript of the Maqamat by al-Hariri and Its Place in the History of Arab Painting

BOOK REVIEWS

Manuscripta Orientalia in 1997, vol. 3, Nos. 1—4 ( list of contributions)