CONTENTS of Vol.6 No.2

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH

T.Sultanov. A Manuscript of the Tarikh-i Narshakhi and an Anonymous Remark on the Harmfulness of Tobacco

A.Khalidov. A Kazan Manuscript of Sibawayhi

M.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali: I. The Vinaya of the Sarvastivadins (part 5)

D.Morozov. An Ancient Russian Manuscript on Central Asian Paper

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

V.Kushev. A Pashtun Ruler and Literary Figure of the Seventeenth Century on Political Ethics

PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS

Park Songgyu, Ch'oe Toksu, Chong Ubong, Ho Sunch'ol. Collections of Korean Manuscripts, Block-Prints, and Old-Print Books in Russia

CONSERVATION PROBLEMS

E.Mikolaychuk. Some Results of an Analysis of Paper from Khara Khoto (Twelfth - Fourteenth Centuries)

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

A.Matveev. Perceptions of Central Asia in Russian Society: a Database Project

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

M.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. An Illustrated Copy of a Georgian Translation of "Kalila and Dimna"

EDITORIAL BOARD

In Memoriam of Muhammad Taqi Daneshpazhuh. 1911-1996

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