Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p33b/item186 |
Title | Upon a Waqfs Accounting’s marginal note regarding the reparation inspection of two rooms, 14 December 1908 (Gregorian date) - 1 Kânûn Awwal 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-12-14 |
Dates Start | 1908-12-14 |
Dates End | 1908-12-14 |
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 Accounting’s marginal note dated 23 November 1908 and numbered 268, written behind the petition given by Al Sheikh Al Dunza (?) and Al Sheikh Al Nezir, regarding the reparation inspection of the two rooms reserved for their residence in the Temple Mount at the eastern side of Sahratullah Al Müşerrefe and the organization of a Dutch auction for their estimated expenses Following the inspection of the said places, the estimated expenses have been put on Dutch auction. In accordance with the hereby presented Dutch auction bills, it has been decided that the rooms be repaired by Hamid Al Niba (?) at a rate of 1,780 piasters as respected current akçe and that Revâk al Mansûri be repair by Hasan Al Sheikh at a rate of 970 piasters as respected current akçe. The 1st of Kânûn Awwal (1)324 (14th of December 1908). |
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 |