CONTENTS of Vol.5 No.4

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH

J.Musaelian. On the First Kurdish Edition of the Sharaf-nama by Mulla (Mela) Mahmud Bayazidi

M.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali: I. The Vinaya of the Sarvastivadins (part 3)

M.Hasani. A Unique Manuscript of the Medieval Medical Treatise al-Iktifa' by Abu-l-Mutrib 'Abd al-Rahman Du Weisheng. The Ancient Fengkui (Stitched) Books from Dunhuang

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

I.Petrosyan. Pre-Islamic Turkic Tradition in the Writings of the Early Ottoman Historiographers

PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS

M.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. Sanskrit Manuscripts from the N. F. Petrovsky Collection in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

MANUSCRIPTS CONSERVATION

N.Brovenko. On Changing the Means of the Berezovsky Collection Storing

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

H.Kaileh. A Feasibility Study for the Digitalisation of Arabic Manuscript Collections in Jerusalem

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

O.Akimushkin. A Copy of the "Early Diwan" by Jami in the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

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