Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p35a/item263 |
Title | Upon the Sanjak Accounting’s letter regarding the pricing of the summer and winter crops of this year, 27 September 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Aylûl 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-09-27 |
Dates Start | 1910-09-27 |
Dates End | 1910-09-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Sanjak Accounting’s letter, dated 24 September 1910 and numbered 79, regarding the pricing of the summer and winter crops of this year Dried garlic= 1 kilo, 0.3 piasters / Frank Peach= 1 kilo, 0.8 piasters / Local peach= 1 kilo, 0.5 piasters / Local sead bearing pear= 1 kilo, 0.3 piasters / Local seedless pear= 1 kilo, 0.3 piasters / Frank seedless pear= 1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Squash= 1 kilo, 0.8 piasters / Frank squash= 1 kilo, 0.8 piasters / Apple= 1 kilo, 0.5 piasters / Frank plum= 1 kilo, 0.5 piasters / Local plum= 1 kilo, 0.4 piasters / Damascus mulberry= 1 kilo, 0.45 piasters / Local mulberry= 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Dried hard almond= 1 kilo, 0.8 piasters / Dried fresh almond= 1 kilo, 1.6 piasters / Fresh okra= 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Sesame= 1 kilo, 0.7 piasters / Millet= 1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Honey= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Aubergine= 1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Tomato= 1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Unriped grape= 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Pearl onion= 1 kilo, 0.4 piasters / Grape from the northern villages= 1 kilo, 0.26 piasters / Grape from other villages= 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Dried fig= 1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Fig= 1 kilo, 0.15 piasters / Quince= 1 kilo, 0.6 piasters / Carob= 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Jujube= 1 kilo, 0.5 piasters / Yellow squash= 1 kilo, 0.13 piasters / Fresh bean=1 kilo, 0.35 piasters / Chickpea= 1 kilo, 0.5 piasters / Sesame= 1 şinik, 4 piasters / grape for meyhanes= 1 kilo, 0.14 piasters / Wheat= 1 şinik, 3.6 piasters / Barley = 1 şinik, 2, piasters / Lumber= 1 şinik, 2.6 piasters / Fresh broad bean= 1 kilo, 0.16 piasters / Onion= 1 kilo, 0.16 piasters Experienced experts have made it clear that the each kilo and şinik of the summer and winter crops of this year are sold at the above-written prince, on the basis of 19 piasters for a silver Medjidie. Following the Sanjak Accounting’s letter dated 24 September 1910 and numbered 79, this bill has drawn up with three copies and thus presented. The 14th of Aylûl (1)326 (27th of September 1910). |
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 |