四庫失收明代類書考

Ming Encyclopedias and Reference Works Unrecorded in the ＂Ssu-k'u ch'üan-shu tsung-mu＂

裘開明(CHIU KAI-MING)

《中國文化研究所學報》 2卷1期 (1969/09) Pp. 43-58

https://doi.org/10.29708/JCS.CUHK.196909_2(1).0004

並列摘要

The first part of this article was published in the Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies清華學報, New Series II, number 2, June 1961, in which sixty-five Ming encyclopedias and reference works listed in the Ssu-k'u Catalogue were described and analyzed. This article examines some forty-six works not included in the Ssu-k'u Collec- tion. Some of these were either unknown to the Ssu-k'u editors or were proscribed under Emperor Ch'ien-lung's literary inquisition. As in the first part of the article, each work has been carefully examined and described with a brief biography about the author, edition or editions, date of printing, number of chiüan and of volumes, and the essential nature of the work, and in some cases, a brief history of the work. The call number appendixed at the end of each work is that of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Interested parties may order microfilm copies of these works from that Library. The importance of Ming encyclopedias and reference works lies in the fact that for the first time in China's literary history, encyclopedias and reference works were compiled in the Ming Dynasty for popular education of the general mass, and for common daily use by the uneducated people (i.e., those not of the literati class), like the Farmers' Almanac in the West.