title: [Investigation on the number of ancient medical books collected in Haiyuan Private Library].
abstract: Yang's Haiyuan Private Library in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, is the only extant one among the four famous private libraries of the Qing dynasty in Northern China. Its collection is ample and graceful and especially rich in rare and secret versions, amounting to over 2 000 kinds, 200- thousand volumes. By sorting out 5 kinds of such collections from the Yang's family catalogue of Liaocheng in Shandong, plus 3 kinds of supplemented catalogue by Wang Shaozeng, the Catalogue of Haiyuan Private Library Collected in Shandong Provincial Library, and catalogues of modern scholars, it can be basically identified that the number of medical collections of Yang's Haiyuan Private Library is 87 kinds. Supposing all kinds contain 112 works, then Haiyuan Private Library totally has 1296 volumes according to the catalogues.
authors.affiliation: Institute of History and Literature of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China.
authors.forename: Xue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Man
authors.affiliation: Institute of History and Literature of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China.
authors.forename: Gengsheng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history*; D049691:History, Medieval; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*