Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p20b/item142 |
Title | Decision to replace broken door/ portal in Jewish quarter, 30 March 1898 (Gregorian date) - 18 Mârt 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-03-30 |
Dates Start | 1898-03-30 |
Dates End | 1898-03-30 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The report log given by the municipality’s inspector dated on the 16th of Mart (1)314 includes (the information) that the wooden lid of the gutter in the Jews’ quarter (mahallat al yahûd) near the oil press of the honorable ‘Abdallah Effendi Nimr is broken and leaving it like this is dangerous. Therefore it has been decided to repair and fashion a new wooden lid for the mentioned gutter, for an amount not to exceed 50 piasters, and under the supervision of one of us, the honorable Yûsuf Effendi Nussaybi and the engineer. For this reason this decision was taken on the 18th of Mârt (1)314 (30th of March 1898). [7 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-to-replace-broken-door-portal-in-jewish-quarter-30-march-1898-gregorian-date-18-mart-1314-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 |