Khusain Faizkhanov’s Collection in the Funds of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (an 1854 Archive)

This article is the first to offer a consolidated list and a brief description of manuscripts and printed works from the collection of Khusain Faizkhanov (1854) housed in the funds of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The source base of the study consists of catalogues of Oriental manuscripts of the 19th and 20th centuries in three languages (Russian, German and French) and a list of works mentioned in the receipt dated October 26, 1854, from the archive of Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The array of analyzed sources consisting of 26 manuscripts attributed to the collection of Kh. Faizkhanov made it possible to identify a total of 35 works in Arabic, Persian and Turkic (Ottoman and Turkic) languages. In conclusion, a consolidated list of works included in the identified manuscripts is given, and the results of correlating the identified works with the names from the above-mentioned list dated 1854 are presented.