S.M. Iakerson. The Identification of the Origin of A Biblical Manuscript from the Collection of Baron Gunzburg Russian collections are one of the foremost resources for the research of medieval Hebrew manuscripts. It is in these repositories that the most comprehensive examples of Hebrew book production can be found. These holdings include the earliest dated manuscripts from most of the regions of significant Jewish settlements from this period. They also contain many of the most complete codices, which serve as the foundation for the study of the codicology of Hebrew books. The most noteworthy codices in Russian libraries are examples of the Oriental manuscript tradition. The purpose of the present article, however, is to bring to light for scholars an interesting example of the European (or, to be precise, Sephardic) Hebrew book culture. One of the goals is to create a multi-faceted description of a Hebrew Bible from the Collection of the Russian State Library (formerly the Baron Gunzburg Collection). The article includes a discussion of the manuscript's history and codicology, and the author's hypothesis as to the possible localization and dating of this work. It will prove, in fact, that the Bible was created in Castile, Spain around the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fourteenth century and will suggest the manuscript was copied by Castilian masters of the school of Ibn Gaon. S.V. Pakhomov. The Hindu Tantric Literature The Hindu Tantric Literature or "Tantras" are specific complex of texts which have been forming and developing during many centuries since roughly Gupta era (4 - 5 c.) in different parts of India. These texts varied for their influence, genre, nature, volume and other aspects, but in their totality they form an important domain of Indian religious literature wholly sharing its fate. Without studies of these compositions one difficult understand particularities of Indian religious consciousness as in its past manifestations as in its ... Read more