劉承幹與嘉業堂 -- 民國私人藏書第一人
Liu Chenggan and the Jiaye Library: China’s Premier Book Collector during the Republican Period
溥儀題贈 「欽若嘉業」金匾
Plaque presented by Puyi to Liu Chenggan
座落於浙江南潯的嘉業堂藏書樓，藏書最盛時，計有12,450部、20萬冊、60萬卷。其中宋刻77部、元刻78部、宋元明三朝遞修本21部。最具特色的是2,000多種明刻本、1,200多種地方志、2,000多種抄校稿本和42冊《永樂大典》，收藏大典之數，僅次於國家圖書館。其網羅儲蓄之富，可與同時南北公立圖書館相比。
以數目而言，為民國私人藏書的第一人。
Located in Nanxun, Zhejiang Province, the Jiaye Library once held a collection of 12,450 titles in 200,000 volumes. The collection included block prints from the Song (77 titles), Yuan (78 titles) and Ming (more than 2,000 titles) dynasties, more than 1,200 local records and 2,000 manuscript titles, as well as 42 volumes of the Yongle Dadian (Yongle Encyclopaedia). Its collection of the Yongle Dadian was only second to the National Library of China. There is little doubt that the collection Liu Chenggan built was comparable to those in publicly-funded libraries. He was arguably the premier book collector in China during the Republican period.
嘉業堂閱覽室
Main reading room of the Jiaye Library
香港大學馮平山圖書館於五十年代購得嘉業堂120種藏書，包括宋刻本2種，元刻本13種，明刻本20種，清刻本2種，稿鈔校本79種，日本刊本4種，全部共1264冊。負責洽購這批嘉業堂珍本的包括馮平山圖書館館長的陳君葆 (1898-1982)，中文學院林仰山 (Frederick Sequier Drake, 1892-1974) 教授及饒宗頤 (1917-) 教授。
The Fung Ping Shan Library acquired 120 Jiaye Library titles (1,264 volumes) in the early 1950s. These include block prints from the Song (2 titles), Yuan (13 titles), Ming (20 titles) and Qing (2 titles) dynasties, 4 Japanese block prints and 79 manuscript titles. The purchase was coordinated by Mr Chan Kwan-po, Librarian of the Fung Ping Shan Library from 1934 to 1953, with the help of Professor F.S. Drake and Professor Jao Tsung-I of the School of Chinese.