Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p32a/item173 |
Title | Upon a letter regarding bread price, 22 February 1905 (Gregorian calendar) - 9 Shubât 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1905-02-22 |
Dates Start | 1905-02-22 |
Dates End | 1905-02-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter, dated 20 February 1905 and numbered 549, by the General Staff, regarding the determination of the estimated price of bread on account of the fact that the current price of bread provided by the contractor to the Imperial Army does not meet the requirements The first sample of bread delivered with this letter was controlled by our council in the presence of experts and the hereby presented specifications document was also examined; and it was found that the weight of this bread to be exact, i.e., 100 dirham. However, it was observed that it was not in compliance with the other specifications written in the hereby presented document and each kilo of it was assessed to be 0.35 piasters as respected current akçe. The second sample of the said bread was considered to be in compliance with specifications to a certain extent and both samples have hereby been presented in return. The 9th of Shubât (1)320 (22nd of February 1905). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/upon-a-letter-regarding-bread-price-22-february-1905-gregorian-calendar-9-shubat-1320-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 |