周叔弢先生(1891—1984)藏書之名滿天下,而始終視一己之所藏為天下之公器。自新中國成立直至逝世,前後三十餘年中,將畢生所藏古籍盡數舉獻國家,其規模之大、數量之多、價值之高,當代罕有其匹~①。弢翁的藏書,大部分都捐給了北京圖書館和天津圖書館,這是大家都熟知的。但其中有一部書——宋刻殘本《西漢會要》,弢翁則特意把它捐給了上海圖書館,這卻是許多人不知其 Mr. Zhou Shu Tao (1891-1984) collection of books all over the world, and always regarded their possession as the world’s public device. Since the founding of New China until its death, in the thirty years or so before and after its establishment, the ancient books of his lifetime have been offered to the country in all its features. As a result, the scale, number and value of the ancient Chinese books are extremely rare. Tao Weng’s collection, most of them donated to the Beijing Library and Tianjin Library, which we all know. But there is a book - the remnants of the Song Dynasty, “the Western Han Dynasty will want” and Tao Weng deliberately donated it to the Shanghai Library. However, many people do not know it