Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p40a/item266 |
Title | Price list of basic food items, 15 September 1896 (Gregorian calendar) - 3 Aylûl 1312 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1896-09-15 |
Dates Start | 1896-09-15 |
Dates End | 1896-09-15 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Kilo of garlic – 25 bara Kilo of pears – 25 bara Kilo of almond peaches – piasters and 20 bara Kilo of imported swîda – piasters and 30 bara Kilo of local berries – 15 bara Kilo of local dry fava beans – 15 bara Kilo of batlajât – 30 bara Kilo of sour grapes – 20 bara Kilo of wheat – five piasters Kilo of fish – 6 piasters Kilo of grapes – 20 bara Kilo of jujube – 25 bara Kilo of honey – 12 piasters Kilo of green fava beans – 20 bara Kilo of local peaches – piasters and 20 bara Kolo of shammari apricots – piasters and 30 bara Kilo of apples – 20 bara Kilo of Syrian olives – 30 bara Kilo of dry almonds – piasters and 20 bara Kilo of imported black eye beans – piasters Kilo of peas – piasters and 20 bara Kilo of qinnar – piasters and 10 bara Kilo of barely 2 piasters and 20 bara Kilo of lentils – 3 piasters and 20 bara Kilo of carob – 20 bara Kilo of pumpkin – 10 bara Kilo of Onions – 13 bara Kilo of imported peaches – 2 piasters Kilo of imported apricots – piasters Kilo of klâbî apricots – 25 bara Kilo of ordinary swîda – 25 bara Kilo of quince – piasters and 15 bara Kilo of Cyprus dry fava beans – 2 piasters Kilo of tomatoes – 20 bara Kilo of potatoes – 30 bara Kilo of corn – 3 piasters and 10 bara Kilo of kirsanna (fodder) – 3 piasters and 10 bara Kilo of dry figs – 25 bara Kilo chick-pea – 30 bara The 3rd of Aylûl (1)312 (15th of September 1896). |
Language of material | Arabic Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/price-list-of-basic-food-items-15-september-1896-gregorian-calendar-3-aylul-1312-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 |