Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p16b/item86 |
Title | Concerning the marginal note regarding the Dutch auction for demolition costs of the cisterns in Harem-i Sherif, 29 September 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 16 Aylûl 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-09-29 |
Dates Start | 1904-09-29 |
Dates End | 1904-09-29 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Concerning the marginal note, dated 15 September 1904 and numbered 97, written by the Waqfs’ Accounting upon the bill prepared by the municipal doctor regarding the Dutch auction for demolition costs of the cisterns in Harem-i Şerif With the collapse among the current cisterns within the Harem-i Şerif of six cisterns not including water and with the draining off the undrinkable water located in another cistern, the cleaning costs of the said cistern were again put on Dutch auction. After the completion of bidding, it was decided that the work be undertaken, in accordance with the hereby presented Dutch auction bill, by Mahmud Gazlan Al Silvanî at a rate of 600 piasters as respected current akçe. 10 French liras were taken from him on guarantee and this amount is now temporarily conserved in the municipal fund in order to be later submitted to the Waqfs’ fund after the tender. The 16th of Aylûl (1)320 (29th of September 1904). |
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 |