Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol1/p3a/item16 |
Title | Public bid for rental agreement for Hotel Bab al-Wad, 28 March 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 16 Mârt 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1892-03-28 |
Dates Start | 1892-03-28 |
Dates End | 1892-03-28 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce that the rental agreement for the Hotel at Bâb al-Wad ‘Ali which belongs to the municipal council (is up for a public bid). This would be for one year from the beginning of Mart (1)308. And in agreement with the bidders (kaf yad) its amount has been determined at the level of thirteen thousand and fifty piasters according to the official currency (sâgh al khazîna). It has been decided to enact (?) this after four days starting from the 16th of Mart (1)308 at 10 o’clock. So everyone who is interested in this public sale should inform the city council in Jerusalem. And in order for this to be known, this matter was announced on the 16th of Mârt (1)308 (28th of March 1892). [2 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/public-bid-for-rental-agreement-for-hotel-bab-al-wad-28-march-1892-gregorian-calendar-16-mart-1308-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 |