Title: Primer with Various Instructions

Description

• Beron’s Primer with Various Instructions is the first modern Bulgarian primer. Used by children throughout the 19th century, it contained, in addition to the rules of grammar, general information about nature and basic arithmetic. The book is better known as the “Fish Primer” for the picture of the whale at the end. Beron is considered the father of modern Bulgarian.

Creator

• Beron, Petur

Language

• Bulgarian

Title in Original Language

• Буквар с различни поучения

Place

• Europe > Bulgaria

Time

• 1800 CE - 1849 CE

Topic

• Language > Other languages > East Indo-European & Celtic languages

Additional Subjects

• Bulgarian language;
• Readers

Type of Item

• Books

Physical Description

• 140 pages : illustrations ; 17 centimeters

Collection

• Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection

Institution

• Library of Congress

External Resource

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/dlc.274