Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p49a/item325 |
Title | Rental agreement, 6 February 1897 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Kânûn Thânî 1312 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1897-02-06 |
Dates Start | 1897-02-06 |
Dates End | 1897-02-06 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | According to the application presented by the Khawâja Yacob Riski, a citizen of the state of Russia, and which concerns the rent of the previous construction fee room that belongs to the municipality, an agreement has been reached with him in the following manner: first the lease will be for three years and four months starting from Ramadân (1)314 until Thu al-Hijja (1)317, for a sum of 73 Frenh liras to be paid in advance. A sum of eight French liras should be paid in Ramadân (1)314, 30 French liras in Shawwâl (1)314; 25 French liras in Muharram (1)316 and 20 French Liras in Muharram (1)317. Any construction or additions to the mentioned place will be done on the tenant’s expense, except the big beddings which will be given to him, on condition that it does not transgress on the former place of selling salt. The mentioned shop should not sell alcohol either. In order to link the mentioned person to the contract, this decision was taken on the 25th of Kânûn Thânî (1)312 (6th of February 1897). [3 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/rental-agreement-6-february-1897-gregorian-calendar-25-kanun-thani-1312-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters |
Title | Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period |
Covering dates | 1892-01-01-1917-12-31 |
Dates Start | 1892-01-01 |
Dates End | 1917-12-31 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | Global extent: 18 volumes, 4192 items (more than 1200 pages, more than 3420 municipal decisions, for a minimum amount of 16568 lines of handwritten text) |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | This inventory includes the transcription (into Arabic and Turkish) and translation into English of the 18 volumes of reports (55% in Ottoman Turkish, 45% in Arabic) from the Ottoman municipality of Jerusalem between 1892 and 1917. |
Accruals | The collection is closed. |
System of arrangement | Chronological. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Publication notes | Yasemin Avci, Vincent Lemire and Falestin Naili "Publishing Jerusalem’s Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892-1917): A Turning Point for the City’s Historiography," Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 60 (2015), 110-119. http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/187215 Falestin Naili, "La dé-municipalisation de la gouvernance urbaine et de l’espace politique post-ottoman : le cas de Jérusalem", URL: https://ifpo.hypotheses.org/7428 |
Related descriptions | Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | Catalogue prepared during 2014-2018. |
Archivist's notes | Detailed inventory of the Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period (1892-1917), held by Jerusalem City Archive, made by Yasemin Avci, Hanna Borne, Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali, Vincent Lemire, Falestin Naili et Erkal Ünal, 2014-2018. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/registers-of-jerusalem-municipality-council-during-the-ottoman-period |