Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p19b/item148 |
Title | Upon a Waqfs Directorate’s letter regarding the estimation of Dutch auction and his organization, 8 June 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 26 Mayîs 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-06-08 |
Dates Start | 1910-06-08 |
Dates End | 1910-06-08 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Waqfs Directorate’s letter dated 19 April 1910 and numbered 5, regarding the estimation of and organization of a Dutch auction for the necessary expenses of the reparation of two houses belonging the waqfs of Seyyidina Abu Medin Al Guş (?) The estimated expenses written in the said 50 inspection reports have been put on Dutch auction. After the completion of bidding, it has been decided that the house where Kamil Tan (?) resides be repaired at a rate of 1,560 piasters as respected current akçe; that the house where the persons named Hacı Yunus and Hacı Ali Rağvani reside be repaired at a rate of 860 piasters by Mustafa Reşit Al Bilbis (?) under the guarantee of Abdülgani Al Bilbis (?). This has been presented to the Waqfs Directorate to take due action in respect thereof. The 26th of Mayîs (1)326 (8th of June 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 |