Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p26b/item173 |
| Title | Upon a marginal note given by the Commandership regarding the provision necessary from May to June, 23 May 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 10 Mayîs 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1907-05-23 |
| Dates Start | 1907-05-23 |
| Dates End | 1907-05-23 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | Upon the marginal note given on 20 May 1907 by the Commandership regarding the provision necessary from the beginning of May of 1323 (14 May 1907) until its end (13 June 1907) Fresh Broadbean = 1 kilo, 19 piasters / Fresh squash = 1 kilo, 29 piasters / Yoghurt = 1 kilo, 40 piasters / Fresh garlic = 1 kilo, 21 piasters / Tomato juice = 1 kilo, 134 piasters / Potato = 1 kilo, 33 piasters / Redpepper = 1 kilo, 267 piasters / Cabbage = 1 kilo, 30 piasters The prices written in the attached bill of the vegetables, etc. determined through the rate of daric-i bender have been considered to be average and in compliance with market values; and no suitor has been found by the municipality. The 10th of Mayîs (1)323 (23rd of May 1907). |
| 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 |