Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p10a/item56 | 
| Title | Fine for a baker , 14 May 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Mayîs 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) | 
| Dates | 1917-05-14 | 
| Dates Start | 1917-05-14 | 
| Dates End | 1917-05-14 | 
| Level of description | Item | 
| Extend and medium | 1 item | 
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) | 
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) | 
| Description | A loaf of bread seized from the baker named Yusuf Zahman (?) has been observed to be unbaked; hence, as a deterrent to others, it has been decided to serve him with a fine of 100 piasters. The 14th of Mâyîs (1)333 (14th of May 1917). | 
| Language of material | Ottoman Turkish | 
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/fine-for-a-baker-14-may-1917-gregorian-calendar-14-mayis-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 |