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Sefer Derekh ha-yashar leha-yeladim.
ספר דרך הישר להילדים הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... כה"ר נחמיה מזרחי בכה"ר אלחנן ...
LIBRA - Rare Library at the Katz Center H1154.P48 M59 1862
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mizraḥi, Neḥemiah ben Elḥanan, compiler, editor, publisher, translator.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Judeo-Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Hebrew language--19th century--Readers.
- Hebrew language.
- Judeo-Persian language--19th century--Readers.
- Judeo-Persian language.
- Children's literature, Hebrew--19th century.
- Children's literature, Hebrew.
- Children's literature, Persian--19th century.
- Children's literature, Persian.
- Jews--Iran--19th century.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Readers (Publications)
- Dictionaries.
- primers (books)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sh.B.Ḥ. (Jerusalem) (inscriptions) (Libra Katz Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 28 leaves ; 16 cm
- Manufacture:
- Yerushalayim : Nidpas ʻa.y. ... Yiśraʼel Baḳ ... taḥat memshelet adonenu ... Śulṭan ʻAbd Il ʻAziz...
- ירושלים : נדפס ע"י ישראל ב"ק, תחת ממשלת אדוננו ... שולטן עבד איל עזיז..., בשנת ב'ר'כ'ת' ה' היא תעשיר [תרכ"ב]
- Place of Publication:
- [Jerusalem] : Huva le-bet ha-defus ʻa.y.... Neḥemiah Mizraḥi [ben] ... Elḥanan, mi-medinat Peras, [5622, that is, 1861 or 1862]
- [ירושלים] : ממדינת פרס, הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... כה"ר נחמיה מזרחי בכה"ר אלחנן ..., [תרכ"ב]
- Language Note:
- Text in Hebrew and Judeo-Persian.
- Notes:
- The only complete copy known is in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries; one additional imperfect copy recorded in the former Valmadonna Trust Library.
- Title page with a rectangular woodcut depicting the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem.
- Includes: Letters, with vocalizations, and vowels; morning prayers; blessings over food; a Hebrew-Judeo-Persian dictionary; mores (called Musar ṿe-daʻat, and Derekh ha-yashar; and bedtime routines, called Hanhagot ha-laylah.
- For the use of Bukhorian Jewry, printed for use in Persia and Dagestan,; see Halevy.
- Local Notes:
- Libra Katz Rare H1154.P48 M59 1862: Complete. Purchased from Kestenbaum & Co., Auction 57 lot 43 (Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund). manuscript inscriptions of Sh.B.Ḥ., Jerusalem (inscriptions on title page and inside book text: "שב"ח" ; "שב"חי ירושלים").
- Cited in:
- Halevy, Shoshanah. Ha-Sefarim ha-Ivriyim she-nidpesu bi-Yerushalayim ba-hamishim ha-shanim ha-rishonot, 63
- Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), 96
- OCLC:
- 1527085361
- Online:
- The Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund Home Page
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