Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p65b/item447 |
Title | Regarding the price of an album which contains depictions of important and holy places in Jerusalem , 22 September 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 10 Aylûl 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-09-22 |
Dates Start | 1898-09-22 |
Dates End | 1898-09-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Tax expenses of Sahratullahü'l-müşerrefe and Kubbetü's-silsile, 35 French liras The price of the album that depicts the holy places in Jerusalem, 35 French liras The price of the mentioned depictions, 5 French liras The price of the binding of the album, 5 French liras [Total] 80 French liras The expenses pertaining to the albums approved by Sanjak Administrative Council, which will be given to the holy emperor and empress, are 80 French liras in total. These albums contain the depictions of important and holy places in Jerusalem and large mother-of-pearl pictures of Sahratullahü'l-müşerrefe and Kubbetü's-silsile. Thus, it is appropriate to refer this matter to the Sanjak Accountancy so that the abovementioned expenses can be covered from the 100,000 piasters approved by the treasury for the ornamentation expenses of the town. The 10th of Aylûl (1)313 (22nd of September 1898). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
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 |