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Institut vostochnykh rukopisei RAN (IVR)


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Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 505-16; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 388-93; GAF Spravochnik (1991), pp. 397-99; G&K Spravochnik (1983), pp. 53-54; Spravochnik AN (1979), pp. 76-86 (Archive of Orientalists); PKG M&L (1972), pp. 227-34; Sup. 1 (1976) pp. 74-76; Biblioteki AN (1959), pp. 228-32; Peterburg (1992), pp. 47, 133.


There is no comprehensive guide to the manuscripts and archival holdings.
 

Categories:
Manuscript Division
Archive of Orientalists
Serials
Bibliography of Institute Publications
Library

Manuscript Division

e-390. Kychanov, Evgenii Ivanovich. “Sobranie pamiatnikov vostochnoi pis'mennosti v Sankt-Peterburgskom filiale Instituta vostokovedeniia RAN.” In Sokrovishcha akademicheskikh sobranii Sankt-Peterburga, edited by Z.I. Alferov, et al, pp. 329–72. St. Petersburg: “Nauka”, 2003.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ima...

e-391. Petrosian, Iurii Ashotovich. “The Collection of Oriental Manuscripts in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and Its Investigation.” Manuscripta Orientalia 2 (1996), no. 3, pp. 27–37. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

An up-to-date survey of the Oriental manuscript holdings in SPbF IV RAN, with notes on its history, specific holdings in different language groups, and a bibliography of major publications.

e-392. Petrosian, Iurii Ashotovich; and Temkin, Eduard Naumovich. “Izuchenie sobraniia vostochnykh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR: Opisanie fondov, izdanie i issledovanie tekstov.” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1983 (1985), pp. 27–36. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Surveys available catalogues for major Oriental-language manuscripts earlier published by the Institute.

e-393. Aziatskii muzei—Leningradskoe otdelenie Instituta vostokovedeniia. Edited by A.P. Baziiants. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1972. 596 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,094].

Provides a general historical survey of the work of LOIV AN with emphasis on the Soviet period. For each Oriental-language group, provides references for reference catalogues and published manuscript descriptions.

e-394. Baziiants, Ashot Padvakanovich; Kulagina, Liudmila Mikhailovna; and Kuznetsova, Nina Alekseevna. Aziatskii muzei—Institut vostokovedeniia AN SSSR, 1818–1968. Edited by A.M. D'iakonov. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1969. 149 p. [AN SSSR; IV] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A history of SPbF IV and its predecessors starting from the early nineteenth century, with information about their collections, structure, and research activities.

e-395. Tikhonov, Dmitrii Ivanovich. “Vostochnye rukopisi Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 6 (1953), pp. 3–33. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,970].

A general survey of the manuscript holdings, including a short bibliography of earlier general and specialized descriptions.

e-396. “Biblioteka Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta narodov Azii Akademii nauk SSSR—Rukopisnyi otdel.” In Vostokovednye fondy krupneishikh bibliotek Sovetskogo Soiuza: Stat'i i soobshcheniia, pp. 30–59. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Surveys manuscript holdings in different groups of Oriental languages.

e-397. Men'shikov, Lev Nikolaevich. “Dal'nevostochnye i tsentral'noaziatskie rukopisnye fondy Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR (ocherk arkheograficheskikh rabot).” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1970 god (1971), pp. 277–90. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,754 mf. 114-20].

Surveys manuscripts from East, Central, and Southeast Asia, organized by language group with their inclusive dates.

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Archive of Orientalists
 
Most of the personal fonds held by the Institute are listed in Spravochnik AN (1979), pp. 78–86.
 

e-402. Chuguevskii, Leonid Ioakimovich. “Arkhiv vostokovedov (byvshii Aziatskii arkhiv).” In Pis'mennye pamiatniki i problemy kul'tury narodov Vostoka. XXIII godichnaia nauchnaia sessiia LOIV AN SSSR: Materialy po istorii otechestvennogo vostokovedeniia 3, pp. 5–128. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1990.

Surveys the history of the Archive of Orientalists (earlier Asiatic Archive) from 1818 to the present, with a survey of fonds and divisions (razriady) of the archive (pp. 16–76). Includes a bibliography of 407 descriptive and documentary publications (pp. 77–107), and an index of names (pp. 111–28).

e-403. Muginov, Abdulladzhan Muginovich; and Zhuravlev, N.P. “Kratkii obzor arkhivnykh materialov, khraniashchikhsia v sektore vostochnykh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 6 (1953), pp. 34–53. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

Gives brief descriptions of 56 of the most interesting archival fonds and 15 documentary collections in the Archive of Orientalists as then constituted.

e-404. Kozin, Sergei Andreevich. “Aziatskii arkhiv pri Institute vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR (kratkii obzor materialov).” Bibliografiia Vostoka, 1934, no. 5–6, pp. 56–66. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-in R-1677].

A brief survey of archival materials including an index of manuscripts in the library collection of works, catalogues, and dictionaries prepared by Orientalists. Some have been transferred to the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PFA RAN, E–25).

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Serials
 
See also Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie (1992–) and Bibliografiia Vostoka (1932–1936).
 

e-407. Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. St. Petersburg, 1995–. 3–4 issues per year. [RAN; Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg Branch] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind...

A new English-language journal issued by SPbF IV RAN, with an international board of editors and with coverage of other repositories as well, with many important articles describing institutional holdings or specific collections, analyzing individual manuscripts, publishing texts, reviewing recent publications and projects, and presenting relevant computer developments.

e-408. Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR. 25 vols. Moscow: “Izd-vo AN SSSR”, 1950–1960. [AN SSSR; LOIV/INA] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,973 (vols. 6, 9, 16)].

A major serial published by LOIV AN. Volumes 6, 9, and 16 are devoted principally to descriptions of manuscript and archival holdings of the Institute.

e-409. Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka. Moscow/ St. Petersburg: “Nauka”/Izd. firma “Vostochnaia literatura”, 2004–. Edited by E.I. Kychanov, I.F. Popova, et al. 34 issues published through 2018. [SPbF IV RAN] (Lib: DLC; MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (Rus); http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/ind... (Eng)

Continues earlier version (e–409.1).

e-409.1. Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka: Istoriko-filologicheskie issledovaniia: Ezhegodnik. Moscow, 1970–1987. Titles and subtitles vary. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH [inc]) [IDC-R-11,058 (9 vols.)].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind...

An old serial publication of the Institute, containing many important bibliographic and descriptive publications relating to the manuscript collections.

e-410. Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury/“Vostochnaia literatura”, 1965–. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Continues earlier series: Pamiatniki literatury narodov Vostoka. Moscow, 1959–1965. Bol'shaia seriia, 17 vols. (some in multiple parts) (1959–1965). Malaia seriia, 7 vols. (1959–1962)
        Indexes: Pamiatniki literatury narodov Vostoka. Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka: Katalog seriinykh izdanii. 1959–1976 gg. Moscow, 1977. 87 p.
        Pamiatniki literatury narodov Vostoka. Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka: Katalog seriinykh izdanii. 1959–1985 gg. Compiled by V.D. Buzaeva, N.V. Isaeva. Edited by S.S. Tsel'niker. Moscow: Nauka, 1986. 112 p. (Lib: MH).

A series of documentary publications and facsimile editions of Oriental manuscripts, predominantly in the Institute collections.

e-411. [Pravoslavnyi] Palestinskii sbornik. Leningrad/St. Petersburg–Moscow, 1954–. 112 issues published through 2016.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (brief annotations of some issues)

e-412. Mongolica. St. Petersburg, 1994–. 21 issues published through 2018.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (Rus); http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/ind... (Eng, annotation)

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Bibliography of Institute Publications

e-415. Livotova, Ol'ga Emanuilovna; and Portugal', Vilen Borisovich. Vostokovedenie v izdaniiakh Akademii nauk 1726–1917: Bibliografiia. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1966. 143 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,972].

A comprehensive bibliography of prerevolutionary catalogues and other descriptive literature.

e-416. Livotova, Ol'ga Emanuilovna. “Osnovnaia literatura ob Aziatskom muzee—Institute vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR (1776–1954).” Ocherki po istorii russkogo vostokovedeniia 2 (1956), pp. 469–511. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,971].

A general bibliography of publications of the Institute and its predecessors, inconveniently arranged by year of publication. Superseded for prerevolutionary coverage by e–415.

e-417. Livotova, Ol'ga Emanuilovna. “Bibliografiia izdanii Aziatskogo muzeia i Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR (1917–1958).” Ocherki po istorii russkogo vostokovedeniia 3 (1960), pp. 196–311. (Lib: IU) [IDC-in R-10,971].

An extensive bibliography of publications of the Institute and its predecessors, continuing the coverage in e–415.

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Library

e-420. Portugal', Vilen Borisovich. “Odna iz stareishikh: (K 150-letiiu biblioteki Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR).” Bibliotechno-bibliograficheskaia informatsiia bibliotek AN SSSR i akademii nauk, 1970, no. 2, pp. 69–79.

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Finding Aids —  Specialized:

Categories:
Arabic Manuscripts
Armenian Manuscripts
Chinese Manuscripts
Georgian Manuscripts and Documents
Hebrew Manuscripts
Hindi, Punjabi and other Indian Manuscripts
Japanese Manuscripts
Korean Manuscripts
Kurdish Manuscripts
Manchu Manuscripts
Mongolian, Buriat, Kalmyk Documentation
Pashto Manuscripts
Persian, Sogdian and Tadzhik Manuscripts
Syriac Manuscripts
Tangut Manuscripts
Turkic Manuscripts

Arabic Manuscripts
 
See also: Mikhailova, I.B.; and Khalidov, A.B. Bibliografiia arabskikh rukopisei (1982); Huisman, A.J.W. Les manuscrits arabes dans le monde: Une bibliographie des catalogues (1967); Khalidov, A.B. Arabskie rukopisi i arabskaia rukopisnaia traditsiia (1985) and article by Rozenfel'd, B.A. “Arabskie i persidskie fiziko-matematicheskie rukopisi v bibliotekakh Sovetskogo Soiuza,” in Fiziko-matematicheskie nauki v stranakh Vostoka: Sbornik statei i publikatsii, vol. 1, pp. 256–89 (1966).
 

e-425. Arabskie rukopisi Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR: Kratkii katalog. Compiled by S.M. Batsieva, et al. Edited by A.B. Khalidov. 2 vols. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1986.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, preface, summary, indexes)
        Vol. 1: Koran. 526 p.
        Vol. 2: Ukazateli i prilozheniia. 335 p.

A short catalogue listing over 10,822 manuscripts held by the Institute. An updatred version with supplemental data of recently described materials and corrections is in preparation.

e-426. Katalog arabskikh rukopisei Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR. 3 vols. Moscow: Izd-vo nauchnoi literatury/ “Nauka”, 1960–1965. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,974].
        Vol. 1: Khudozhestvennaia proza. Compiled by A.B. Khalidov. Edited by V.I. Beliaev. 1960. 136 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, indexes).
        Vol. 2: Geograficheskie sochineniia. Compiled by A.I. Mikhailova. Edited by V.I. Beliaev. 1961. 77 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, indexes).
        Vol. 3: Istoriia. Compiled by A.I. Mikhailova. Edited by P.A. Griaznevich. 1965. 199 p.

e-427. Beliaev, Viktor Ivanovich. “Arabskie rukopisi v sobranii Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 6 (1953), pp. 54–130. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973 mf. 1-4].

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Armenian Manuscripts
 
The description of 344 Armenian manuscripts held in IVR see in: Iuzbashian, Karen Nikitovich. Armianskie rukopisi v Peterburgskikh sobraniiakh: Katalog (St. Petersburg, 2005), pp. 60–204 (electronic edition of annotation, introduction, summary, table of contents, indexes is available electronically: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind...).
 

e-430. Orbeli, Rusudan Rubenovna. “Sobranie armianskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 6 (1953), pp. 104–30. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

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Chinese Manuscripts

e-435. Savitskii, Lev Serafimovich. Opisanie tibetskikh svitkov iz Dun'khuana v sobranii Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR. Edited by M.I. Vorob'eva-Desiatovskaia. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1991. 128 p.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, indexes)

e-436. Men'shikov, Lev Nikolaevich. Opisanie kitaiskoi chasti kollektsii iz Khara-khoto (fond P.K. Kozlova). Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1984. 527 p. Introduction by L.I. Chuguevskii. [IV RAN].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes, bibliography, summary)

Describes 375 manuscripts and xylographs (11th–14th cc.) which were part of the Tangut Library found in the lost city of Hara-Hoto in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia by P.K. Kozlov in 1909.

e-437. Vorob'eva-Desiatovskaia, Margarita Iosifovna; et al. Opisanie kitaiskikh rukopisei Dun'khuanskogo fonda Instituta narodov Azii. Edited by L.N. Men'shikov. 2 vols. Moscow: “Nauka”/ Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963–1967. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,975].
        Vol. 1: 1963. 774 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations).
        Vol. 2: 1967. 688 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations)
        Chinese translation: Shanghai, 1999.
        Electronic edition: Vol. 1: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, preface, appendixes); vol. 2: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, appendixes).

A detailed description of Chinese manuscripts from Tunhuang (Dun Hwang).

e-438. Chuguevskii, Leonid Ioakimovich. Kitaiskie dokumenty iz Dun'khuana: Faksimil'nye izdaniia tekstov, perevody s kitaiskogo, issledovaniia i prilozheniia. Edited by L.N. Men'shikov. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1983. 560 p. “Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka,” vol. 57, no. 1.

A scholarly description and facsimile edition of 73 documents from Tunhuang (Dun Hwang) from the expeditions of S.F. Ol'denburg (1909–1910, 1914–1915).

e-439. Katalog fonda kitaiskikh ksilografov Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR. Compiled by I.S. Gurevich, D.L. Krol', E.S. Stulova, A.A. Toporov and B.B. Vakhtin. 3 vols. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1973. 402 p.; 591 p.; 502 p. [IDC-R-11,095].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, preface, indexes)

A catalogue of 3,700 Chinese xylographs now in the Institute.

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Georgian Manuscripts and Documents

e-444. Orbeli, Rusudan Rubenovna. Gruzinskie rukopisi Instituta vostokovedeniia. Vol. 1: Istoriia, geografiia, puteshestviia, arkheologiia, zakonodatel'stvo, filosofiia, iazykoznanie, bibliografiia. Edited by D.I. Tikhonov. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1956. 214 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,976].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, preface, abbreviations, indexes, supplements)

e-445. Orbeli, Rusudan Rubenovna. “Sobranie gruzinskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 9 (1954), pp. 30-66. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

e-446. Kakabadze, Saurmag Sargisovich. Gruzinskie dokumenty Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1967. 512 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,977].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, indexes, abbreviations)

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Hebrew Manuscripts
 
For a list of Jewish-related holdings, see Dok. ist. evreev (1994), pp. 87–88, and Jewish Doc. (1996), pp. 49–50. For updated scholarly descriptions of the Hebrew manuscript holdings in the Institute, see the electronic cataloguing underway at the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (IMHM) in Jerusalem, increasingly available on the Internet: http://aleph500.huji.ac.il/F/?func=fi....
 

e-448. Iakerson, Semen Mordukhovich. “Evreiskie rukopisi v sobranii Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR.” Palestinskii sbornik, 1986, no. 28, pp. 74–88. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A basic survey of the formation and characteristics of the Hebraic holdings in SPbF IV, with reference to earlier relevant publications and cataloguing work on the collections, started by I.I. Gintsburg and then edited by K.B. Starkova. Notes that Hebraic holdings now number 1,148 units, ranging from a single manuscript to a folder unit with numerous manuscripts or fragments. The largest single group (over 300 MSS) was acquired in the late nineteenth century with the L.P. Friedland Collection and has subsequently been increased by numerous accessions.

e-450. Jewish Manuscript Collection of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Oriental Studies), St. Petersburg [microform]. St. Petersburg/ Jerusalem, 199?. (Lib: MH).
Prepared by the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.

A collection of 206 reels of microfilm copies of virtually all of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Institute.

e-451. Iakerson, Semen Mordukhovich. Katalog inkunabulov na drevneevreiskom iazyke Biblioteki Leningradskogo otdeleniia Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR. Edited by I.S. Shifman. Leningrad: BAN, 1985. 108 p. [LOIV AN] (Lib: DLC; MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, compiler’s note)

A catalogue of Hebrew incunabula in the SPbF IV library, many of them extremely rare and with marginalia, making them of archival interest.

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Hindi, Punjabi and other Indian Manuscripts
 
See also: An Annotated Bibliography of Indian Manuscripts, pt. 1, by Janert, Klaus Ludwig (1965).
 

e-455. Posova, Tat'iana Konstantinovna; and Chizhikova, Kseniia Leonidovna. Kratkii katalog indiiskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia RAN. Edited by G.A. Zograf. Moscow: “Vostochnaia literatura”, 1999. 168 p. [RAN; SPbF IV].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes)

Describes 659 manuscripts held by the Institute. See especially article by V.S. Vorob'ev-Desiatovskii: “Sobranie indiiskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR,” pp. 7–20.

e-456. Mironov, Nikolai Dmitrievich. Katalog indiiskikh rukopisei/Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Indicorum qui in Academiae Imperialis Scientiarum Petropolitanae Museo Asiatico asservantur. Petrograd: Tip. Imp. AN, 1914. 360 p. “Katalogi Aziatskogo muzeia Imp. Akademii nauk/ Catalogi Musei asiatici,” vol. 1. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-9889].
        Indian reprint: Katalog indiiskikh rukopisei. New Delhi: Sharada Rani, [1984?]. 360 p. Cover title: Catalogue of Indian manuscripts at Leningrad. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Describes 466 manuscripts in Sanskrit and Pali now held in SPbF IV. The second volume, intended to cover manuscripts in other Indian languages was never published.

e-457. Zograf, Georgii Aleksandrovich. Opisanie rukopisei khindi i pandzhabi Instituta vostokovedeniia. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1960. 100 p. [AN SSSR; IV] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,978].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations)

e-458. Bongard-Levin, Grigorii Maksimovich; and Vorob'eva-Desiatovskaia, Margarita Iosifovna. Pamiatniki indiiskoi pis'mennosti iz Tsentral'noi Azii. 3 vols. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glav. red. vostochnoi lit-ry, 1985–2004. 285 p.; 439 p. [AN SSSR/RAN; IV] “Bibliotheca Buddica,” vol. 33, 34, 40. “Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka,” vol. 73. (Lib: DLC; MH).

The first volume includes a survey description of the Central Asian Fond, comprising manuscripts from various collections (pp. 14–21), with tabular summary listings of manuscripts and fragments in Sanskrit, Saka, and Kuchi languages.

e-459. Vorob'ev-Desiatovskii, Vladimir Sviatoslavovich. “Sobranie indiiskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 9 (1954), pp. 128–45. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

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Japanese Manuscripts

e-462. Goregliad, Vladimir Nikanorovich; and Petrova, Ol'ga Petrovna. Opisanie iaponskikh rukopisei, ksilografov i staropechatnykh knig. 6 vols. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury/ “Nauka”, 1963–1971. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,979].
        Vol. 1: 1963. 273 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 2: Filologiia. Compiled by G.D. Ivanova and V.N. Goregliad. 1964. 231 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 3: Ideologiia. 1966. 174 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 4: 1969. 172 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 5: Compiled by V.N. Goregliad. 1971. 132 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, indexes, abbreviations).
        Vol. 6: Compiled by V.N. Goregliad and Z.Khanin. 1971. 192 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, indexes, abbreviations).

Volume 4 covers materials relating to science, numismatics, military and naval science; volume 5 covers materials relating to cartography, art and culture, calligraphy, and architecture, in addition to archival documents.

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Korean Manuscripts

e-465. Gur'eva, Anastasiia Aleksandrovna; and Trotsevich, Adelaida Fedorovna. Opisanie pis'mennykh pamiatnikov koreiskoi traditsionnoi kul'tury. Vyp. II: Koreiskie pis'mennye pamiatniki v rukopisnom otdele Instituta vostochnykh rukopisei Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo SPbGU, 2009. 424 p. Summary in English. [Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk; In-t Vostokovedeniia. Sankt-Peterburgskii filial] (Lib: MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, table of contents, indexes)

e-466. Petrova, Ol'ga Petrovna. Opisanie pis'mennykh pamiatnikov koreiskoi kul'tury. Edited by D.I. Tikhonov. 2 vols. Moscow, 1956–1963. [AN SSSR; IV/ INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,980].
        Vol. 1: Moscow/Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1956. 98 p. Electronic editions: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations).
        Vol. 2: Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963. 152 p. Electronic editions: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).

e-466.1. Petrova, Ol'ga Petrovna. “Sobranie koreiskikh pis'mennykh pamiatnikov Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 9 (1954), pp. 3–29. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

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Kurdish Manuscripts

e-468. Rudenko, Margarita Borisovna. Opisanie kurdskikh rukopisei leningradskikh sobranii. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1961. 125 p. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,877].

Covers manuscripts in the A.D. Jaba Collection in RNB as well as those in SPbF IV.

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Manchu Manuscripts

e-470. Volkova, Maiia Petrovna. Opisanie man'chzhurskikh rukopisei Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1965. 139 p. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,982].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations)

e-471. Volkova, Maiia Petrovna. Opisanie man'chzhurskikh ksilografov Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR. Vyp. 1. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1988. 160 p. [AN SSSR; IV] (Lib: MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations)

e-472. Pan, Tat'iana Aleksandrovna. Opisanie manchzhurskikh rukopisei i ksilografov Sankt-Peterburgskogo filiala Instituta vostokovedeniia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Vyp. 2/Descriptive catalogue of Manchu manuscripts and blockprints in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Issue 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, in Kommission, 2001. xxxviii, 234 p. + ill. “Aetas Manjurica,” vol. 9. (Lib: MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, introduction, indexes)

Continues the catalogues compiled by M.P. Volkova in 1965 (e–470) and 1988 (e–471).

e-473. Pan, Tat'iana Aleksandrovna (Pang). Manchzhurskie pis'mennye pamiatniki po istorii i kulture imperii Tsin XVII–XVIII vv./Manchu Written Sources of the History and Culture of the Qing Empire in the 17th–18th centuries. Edited by E.I. Kychanov. St. Petersburg: “Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie”, 2006. 228 p. [RAN; SPb IV] “Orientalia.”
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction)

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Mongolian, Buriat, Kalmyk Documentation
 
See also: Iorish, I.I. Materialy o mongolakh, kalmykakh i buriatakh v arkhivakh Leningrada: Istoriia, pravo, ekonomika (1966), Dittmar von Schorkowitz, Die Ethnohistorischen Archivdokumente zu den Kalmüken, Burjaten und Mongolen des Zentralstaatlichen Geschichtsarchives (CGIA) und des Institutsarchives für Ethnographie (AIE) in Leningrad/ Etnoistoricheskie dokumenty po kalmykam, buriatam i mongolam Tsentral'nogo Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo Arkhiva (TsGIA) i Arkhiva Instituta Etnografii (AIE) v Leningrade (1988), and Sazykin, A.G. Katalog buriatskikh ksilografirovannykh i litografirovannykh izdanii iz kollektsii Sankt-Peterburga (Kyoto, 2004).
 

e-476. Kul'ganek, Irina Vladimirovna. Katalog mongoloiazychnykh fol'klornykh materialov Arkhiva vostokovedov pri Sankt-Peterburgskom filiale Instituta votsokovedeniia RAN. St. Petersburg: “Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie”, 2000. 320 p. “Arkhiv rossiiskogo vostokovedeniia,” vol. V. (Lib: DLC).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, etc. in Russian and English)

The catalogue of 3,000 folk materials in Mongolian, Buriat, and Kalmyk dialests held by the Archive of Orientalists .

e-477. Sazykin, Aleksei Georgievich. Katalog mongol'skikh rukopisei i ksilografov Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR/RAN. Edited by D. Kara. 3 vols. Moscow: “Nauka”/ “Vostochnaia literatura”, 1988–2003. [AN SSSR; IV] (Lib: MH).
        Vol. 1: 1988. 506 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 2: 2001. 415 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, abbreviations, indexes).
        Vol. 3: 2003. 280 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, introduction, abbreviations, indexes).

e-477.1. Sazykin, Aleksei Georgievich. Preface to the Catalogue of Mongolian Manuscripts and Xylographs in the Institute of Oriental Studies. Bloomington, IN: Mongolia Society, 1995. 28 p. English translation by John R. Krueger, William V. Rozycki, and Robert G. Service. “Occasional Papers,” vol. 17. (Lib: DLC; MH).

An English translation of the preface to the Sazykin catalogue (e–477).

e-478. Puchkovskii, Leonid Sergeevich. Mongol'skie, buriat-mongol'skie i oirotskie rukopisi i ksilografy Instituta vostokovedeniia. Vol. 1: Istoriia. Pravo. Edited by B.I. Pankratov and D.I. Tikhonov. Moscow/Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1957. 277 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-9811].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, abbreviations)

e-479. Puchkovskii, Leonid Sergeevich. “Sobranie mongol'skikh rukopisei i ksilografov Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 9 (1954), pp. 90–127. (Lib: MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

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Pashto Manuscripts

e-482. Kushev, Vladimir Vasil'evich. Opisanie rukopisei na iazyke pashto Instituta vostokovedeniia. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1976. 136 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-17,232].

See also the same author's English-language article, “The Formation and Study of the Afhan Manuscript Collection in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies,” Manuscripta Orientalia 4, no. 1 (1998), pp. 40–48.

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Persian, Sogdian and Tadzhik Manuscripts
 
See the catalogue of microfilms of Persian manuscripts on the website of the institute: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ima... (by titles) and http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ima... (by authors)
 

e-485. Persidskie i tadzhikskie rukopisi Instituta vostokovedeniia RAN: Kratkii katalog/Persian and Tajik Manuscripts of the Institute of Oriental Studies: Short Catalog. Compiled by N.D. Miklukho-Maklai, et al. Edited by O.F. Akimushkin and N.D. Miklukho-Maklai. 2 vols. 2d ed. New York: Norman Ross Publishers, 1995–1998. Corrigenda and addenda by O.F. Akimushkin. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        1st ed.: Persidskie i tadzhikskie rukopisi Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR: (Kratkii alfavitnyi katalog). 2 vols. Moscow: “Nauka,” 1964. 633 p.; 146 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,984].

A reprint edition of the 1964 edition, consisting of an alphabetical list of 4,912 different titles contained in approximately 3,100 manuscripts held by the Institute. An addendum contains 122 new entries, describing manuscripts acquired and/or catalogued since 1964. Includes English translations of the introduction, table of contents, and subject index.

e-485.1. Fihrist-i nuskhah'ha-yi khatti-i Farsi-i Institu-yi Khavarshinasi (milal-i Asyayi) Farhangistan-i ulum-i Rusiyah/Persidskie i tadzhikskie rukopisi Instituta vostokovedeniia RAN. Compiled by N.D. Miklukho-Maklai, et al. Edited by O.F. Akimushkin and N.D. Miklukho-Maklai. Teheran: Sazman-i Madarik-i Farhangi-i Inqilab-i Islami, Guruh-i Intisharat, 1997/1998 [ah 1376]. 8, 486 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

An Iranian edition of e–485.

e-486. Opisanie tadzhikskikh i persidskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia [narodov Azii]. Moscow/Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR/Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury/ “Nauka”, 1955. Titles of individual volumes vary with name of Institute. [AN SSSR; IV] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,985 (vols. 1-5)].
        Vol. 1: Geograficheskie sochineniia. Compiled by N.D. Miklukho-Maklai. Edited by V.I. Beliaev and D.I. Tikhonov. M./ L. 1955. 106 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface).
        Vol. 2: Biograficheskie sochineniia. Compiled by N.D. Miklukho-Maklai. Edited by I.A. Orbeli and V.I. Beliaev. M. 1961. 168 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface).
        Vol. 3: Istoricheskie sochineniia. Compiled by N.D. Miklukho-Maklai. Edited by O.F. Akimushkin. M. 1975. 443 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes).
        Vol. 4: Persidskie tolkovye slovari (farkhangi). Compiled by S.I. Baevskii. M. 1962. 79 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes, abbreviations).
        Vol. 5: Dvuiazychnye slovari. Compiled by S.I. Baevskii. Edited by A.N. Boldyrev. M. 1968. 103 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes, abbreviations).
        Vol. 6: Fol'klor (zanimatel'nye rasskazy i povesti). Compiled by N.N. Tumanovich. Edited by Ch.A. Baiburdi. M. 1981. 144 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, preface, indexes).
        Vol. 7: Persoiazychnaia khudozhestvennaia literatura (X–nachalo XIII v.). Compiled by Z.N. Vorozheikina. Edited by A.N. Boldyrev. M. 1980. 57 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes).
        Vol. 8: Persoiazychnaia khudozhestvennaia literatura (XI–nachalo XIII vv.). Compiled by Kh.N. Niiazov. M. 1979. 144 p.
        Vol. 10: Poeticheskie sborniki, al'bomy. Compiled by O.F. Akimushkin. M. 1993. 300 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface, indexes, abbreviations).

e-487. Sogdiiskie fragmenty tsentral'noaziatskogo sobraniia Instituta vostokovedeniia: Faksimile. Compiled by A.N. Ragoza. Edited by M.N. Bogoliubov. Moscow: “Nauka,” Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1980. 183 p. + plates. (Lib: MH).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface)

A publication of texts with descriptive data and bibliography.

e-488. Ivanov, Vitalii Anatol'evich. “Spiski rukopisei Bukharskoi kollektsii.” Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka: Istoriko-filologicheskie issledovaniia: Ezhegodnik, 1970, pp. 407–36. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-in R-11,058 mf. 15-23].

The posthumous publication of a description of the Bukhara collection prepared by V.A. Ivanov in 1915, covering Persian, Arabic, Turkic, and Hebraic-Persian manuscripts now in IVR (earlier SPbF IV), with correlation to present catalogue numbers.

e-489. Akimushkin, Oleg Fedorovich; and Borshchevskii, Iurii Efimovich. “Materialy dlia bibliografii rabot o persidskikh rukopisiakh.” Narody Azii i Afriki 3 (1963), pp. 165–74; 6 (1963), pp. 228–41. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,699].

The first part of this article covers publications regarding the Institute holdings.

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Syriac Manuscripts

e-492. Pigulevskaia, Nina Viktorovna. Katalog siriiskikh rukopisei Leningrada. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1960. 230 p. Issued as Palestinskii sbornik 6(69). (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,670].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, preface)

Also covers manuscripts in RNB.

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Tangut Manuscripts

e-495. Kychanov, Evgenii Ivanovich. Katalog tangutskikh buddiiskoi pamiatnikov Instituta vostokovedeniia Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk. Kyoto: University, 1999. Prepares by S. Arakava. Introduction by T. Nisida.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface in Russian and Japanese, introduction, indexes)

e-496. Gorbacheva, Zoia Ivanovna; and Kychanov, Evgenii Ivanovich. Tangutskie rukopisi i ksilografy. Spisok otozhdestvlennykh i opredelennykh tangutskikh rukopisei i ksilografov kollektsii Instituta narodov Azii AN SSSR. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963. 171 p. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,987].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (preface, introduction, indexes, abbreviations)

e-497. Gorbacheva, Zoia Ivanovna. “Tangutskie rukopisi i ksilografy Instituta vostokovedeniia Akademii nauk SSSR.” Uchenye zapiski Instituta vostokovedeniia AN SSSR 9 (1954), pp. 67–89. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,973].

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Turkic Manuscripts
 
See also article by Dmitrieva, L.V. and Muratov, S.N. “Katalogi, spiski i obzory tiurkskikh rukopisei XVIII–XX vv.” Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka (1969), pp. 145–77.
 

e-500. Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna. Katalog tiurkskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Edited by O.F. Akimushkin. Moscow: “Vostochnaia literatura”, 2002. 616 p. [SPbF IV].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, summary, indexes)

Catalogue of Turkic manuscripts held in the Institute with description of 1,674 manuscripts.

e-501. Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna; Muginov, Abdulladzhan Muginovich; and Muratov, Saifi Nizamovich. Opisanie tiurkskikh rukopisei Instituta vostokovedeniia [Narodov Azii]. Edited by A.N. Kononov and A.S. Tveritinova. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1965–1979[1980]. [AN SSSR; IV/INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,988 (vols. 1-2)].
        Vol. 1: Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna; Muginov, Abdulladzhan Muginovich; and Muratov, Saifi Nizamovich. Istoriia. Edited by A.N. Kononov. 1963. 258 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes).
        Vol. 2: Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna; Muratov, Saifi Nizamovich. Istoriia, akty, bibliografiia, entsiklopedii, geografiia, kalendari. Edited by A.S. Tveritinova. 1975. 231 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes).
        Vol. 3: Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna. Poeziia i kommentarii k poeticheskim sochineniiam. Poetika. Edited by A.S. Tveritinova. 1980. 262 p. Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes).

e-502. Muratov, Saifi Nizamovich. “Vostochnye rukopisi iz arkhiva akad. V.V. Radlova.” In Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka: Istoriko-filologicheskie issledovaniia: Ezhegodnik, 1972, pp. 9–25.
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ima...

e-503. Muginov, Abdulladzhan Muginovich. Opisanie uigurskikh rukopisei Instituta narodov Azii. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1962. 207 p. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,989].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (table of contents, annotation, preface, indexes)

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