Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p14a/item83 |
| Title | Prices, 1st August 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 1 Agustos 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1917-08-01 |
| Dates Start | 1917-08-01 |
| Dates End | 1917-08-01 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | Grape= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Local aubergine= 1 kilo, 6.2 piasters / Jericho aubergine= 3 piasters / Local tomato= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Jericho tomato= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Green pea= 1 kilo, 5 piasters / Unriped grape= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Fig= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Okra= 1 kilo, 5 piasters / Quince= 1 kilo, 10 piasters / Carob = 1 kilo, 5 piasters / Cabbage= 1 kilo, 2 piasters / Beet= 1 kilo, 3.2 piasters / Jujube= 1 kilo, 6 piasters / Chickpea= 1 kilo, 15 piasters / Millet= 1 kilo, 7 piasters / Local onion= 1 kilo, 7 piasters / Jericho onion= 1 kilo, 7 piasters / Local cucumber= 1 kilo, 4 piasters / Jericho cucumber= 1 kilo, 4 piasters / Squash= 1 kilo, 1.3 piasters / Fresh pepper= 1 kilo, 8 piasters / Carrot= 1 kilo, 15 piasters / White cucumber= 1 kilo, 6 piasters / Frank peach= 1 kilo, 12 piasters / Local peach= 1 kilo, 10 piasters / Local pear= 1 kilo, 6 piasters / Local seedless pear= 1 kilo, 9 piasters / Wild apricot= 1 kilo, 8.2 piasters / Apricot= 1 kilo, 7 piasters / Frank apricot= 1 kilo, 9 piasters/ Apple= 1 kilo, 6.2 piasters / Frank apple= 1 kilo, 8 piasters / Local plum= 1 kilo, 8 piasters / Damascus mulberry= 1 kilo, 4 piasters / Local mulberry= 1 kilo, 3 piasters / Dried almond= 1 kilo, 30 piasters / Broad bean= 1 kilo, 12 piasters / Honey= 1 kilo, 80 piasters Upon the letter, dated 10 July 1333, given by the Treasury Accounting and sent via the Mutasarrifate The prices of the above-mentioned types of crops have been determined by our committee, considering these prices in line with the current market prices in the town. And it has been decided to draw up and give a note with regard to this matter. The 1st of Agustos (1)333 (1st of August 1917). |
| Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/prices-1st-august-1917-gregorian-calendar-1-agustos-1333-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 |