Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p15a/item85 |
Title | Upon a Sanjak Accounting’s note regarding the pricing of summer crops, 21 September 1908 (Gregorian date) - 8 Aylûl 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-09-21 |
Dates Start | 1908-09-21 |
Dates End | 1908-09-21 |
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 note, dated 19 September 1908 and numbered 67, regarding the pricing of summer crops Onion= 1 kıyye, 0.25 piasters / Garlic = 1 kıyye, 0.55 piasters / Fresh broadbean = 1 kıyye, 0.15 piasters / French Peach = 1 kıyye, 0.6 piasters / Local peach= 1 kıyye, 0.45 piasters / Pear with seeds= 1 kıyye, 0.2 piasters / Pear without seeds= 1 kıyye, 0.4 piasters / Wild apricot= 1 kıyye, 0.25 piasters / Apricot= 1 kıyye, 0.85 piasters / French apricot= 1 kıyye, 0.75 piasters / Apple= 1 kıyye, 0.5 piasters / Greengage= 1 kıyye, 0.8 piasters / Local plum= 1 kıyye, 0.3 piasters / Damascus Mulberry= 1 kıyye, 0.5 piasters / Local mulberry= 1 kıyye, 0.15 piasters / Dry hard almond= 1 kıyye, 0.65 piasters / Dry tooth almond= 1 kıyye, 1,2 piasters / Dried broadbean= 1 kıyye, 0.38 piasters / Aubergine= 1 kıyye, 0.35 piasters / Tomato= 1 kıyye, 0,2 piasters / Greenpea= 1 kıyye, 0.5 piasters / Unripe grape= 1 kıyye, 0.2 piasters/ Potato= 1 kıyye, 0,4 piasters / Pearl onion= 1 kıyye, 0.6 piasters / Wheat= 1 şinik, 3 piasters / Barley= 1 şinik, 1,7 piasters / Millet= 1 şinik, 1.8 piasters / Sesame= 1 şinik, 4.2 piasters / Vetch= 1 kıyye, 3 piasters / Lentil= 1 şinik, 2.2 piasters / Grape= 1 kıyye, 0.25 piasters / Dried fig= 1 kıyye, 0.3 piasters / Carob= 1 kıyye, 0.15 piasters / Jujube= 1 kıyye, 0.4 piasters / Chickpea= 1 kıyye, 0.3 piasters/ Pumpkin= 1 kıyye, 0.15 piasters / Jug of honey= 5 piasters / Beans= 1 kıyye, 0.3 piasters / Fig= 1 kıyye, 0.17 piasters / Quince= 1 kıyye, 0.5 piasters It has been stated by experts that the said crops have been sold at the above-written prices at the rate of respected current akçe. If these prices are deemed suitable, they must be confirmed; and as the prices of these provisions are demanded from different offices every year, they must be returned to our council after being registered to be given upon request. For all these reasons, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 8th of Aylûl (1)324 (21st of September 1908). [5 signatures] |
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 |