Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol9/p1a/item1 |
Title | Regulation of bread prices and threat of sanctions in case of non-compliance, 8 October 1900 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Aylûl 1316 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1900-10-08 |
Dates Start | 1900-10-08 |
Dates End | 1900-10-08 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Medium mâwi bread: dirham: 110 ; Para:122 Clean mâwi ‘âl bread: dirham: 100 ; Para:122 Medium Zuwâri bread: dirham: 100 ; Para: 122 Zuwâri ‘âl bread: dirham: 160 & 80 ; Para: 25 & 122 Single white bread: dirham: 80 ; Para:122 We announce to all the bakers in Jerusalem that after checking the bread prices (illegible) with the weight and types mentioned above, it has been found suitable for the people (al ahâlî) and the bakers. Therefore the bakers have to work accordingly. If after two days of today’s date one of the bakers did not conform to this announcement, they will be subject to a punishment. In order for this to be known, these directions were published on the 25th of Aylûl (1)316 (8th of October 1900). [3 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |