Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p5b/item27 |
Title | Prices, 21 April 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Nîsân 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-04-21 |
Dates Start | 1917-04-21 |
Dates End | 1917-04-21 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | (a batman as equalling 900 drachma) Cucumber= 1 batman, 24 piasters / Squash= 1 batman, 8 piasters / Green fresh broad bean= 1 batman, 10 piasters / Green pea= 1 batman, 20 piasters / Aubergine= 1 batman, 18 piasters / Beet= 1 batman, 10 piasters / Tomato= 1 batman, 24 piasters / Onion= 1 batman, 10 piasters / Garlic=1 batman, 12 piasters / Mutton= 1 batman, 48 piasters /Goat’s meat= 1 batman, 36 piasters / Beef= 1 batman, 30 piasters / Chese produced in Nablus= 1 batman, 32 piasters / Strained yoghurt= 1 batman, 15 piasters / Butter= 1 batman, 90 piasters / Soap= 1 batman, 75 piasters / Coal= 1 batman, 3 piasters / Sesame oil= 1 batman, 400 piasters / Olive oil= 1 batman, 315 piasters It has been considered appropriate that the price of the above-mentioned provisions, which are counted as food stuff, are thus determined. It has been decided that this list be issued to the Central Police Department so as to make an announcement to the public about the situation and carry it into effect within four days. The 21st of Nîsân (1)333 (21st of April 1917). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/prices-21-april-1917-gregorian-calendar-21-nisan-1333-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 |