Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p49a/item331 |
Title | Store rental agreements, 27 June 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 15 Huzayrân 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-06-27 |
Dates Start | 1899-06-27 |
Dates End | 1899-06-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Abdul-Muhsin al-Shurafâ for the rent of the store behind the arch of Jaffa Gate French Lira : 10 'Ezraîl ‘Ashîr al-Najjâr for the rent of the sixth store of the ten stores beneath the big hotel French Lira : 1100 Hayîm al-Najjâr for the rent of the ninth store of the ten stores beneath the big hotel French Lira : 800 Michael al-Najjâr for the rent of the seventh store of the ten stores beneath the big hotel French Lira : 800 ‘Ezrâ al-Halabî for the rent of the tenth store of the ten stores beneath the big hotel French Lira : 700 Abrâm Cohen for the rent of the three wood stores on the stairs of (al-Tabûnah) in the Jewish Quarter (Mahallat al-Yahûd) French Lira : 6 Ya'qûb Shâker ‘Agha for the rent of the fourth store behind the old library (al-Qara'tkhanah) on the road leading to Ma'man ‘Allah French Lira : 400 Riyâd Abrâm al-Ja'âr =?? in al-Bâb al-Jadîd French Lira : 400 The head of al-Salâhiyyah monks [for the rent] of the land in Bâb al-Asbât in front of al-Salâhiyyah French Lira : 4 --- French Lira : 65 Georgi Antoine for the rent of the water cistern in the square that was previously known the square of the needy on the road leading to the Zâwiya of the prophet David peace be upon him French Lira : 100 It has been decided on the council level to rent the above written stores with the knowledge of one of us, the respectable (makrimatlû) al-Hâj Bakr Effendi for the a period of one year starting at the first of Muharram (1)317 for the amount of sixty six golden French Liras. The [above] mentioned amount has already been deposited fully in the council treasury. And in order for this to be approved, this decision was made on the 15th of Huzayrân (1)315 (27th of June 1899). [7 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/store-rental-agreements-27-june-1899-gregorian-calendar-15-huzayran-1315-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 |