Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p5a/item25 |
Title | Prices, 19 April 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Nîsân 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-04-19 |
Dates Start | 1917-04-19 |
Dates End | 1917-04-19 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter, dated 18 April 1917 and numbered 19, presented and relegated from the Jerusalem Orphanage for Boys and Girls to the office of mutasarrifate Bread= 1 kilo, 12 piasters / Broad bean= 1 kilo, 5 piasters / Bulgur= 1 kilo - / Lentil= 1 kilo, 5 piasters / Salt= 1 kilo - / Sesame oil= 1 kilo, 27.1 piasters / Plain oil= 1 kilo - / Olive oil= 1 kilo, 15 piasters / Milk= 1 kilo - / Yoghurt= 1 kilo - / Onion= 1 kilo, 4 piasters / Garlic= 1 kilo, 4 piasters / Fruit leather= 1 kilo - / Fresh cheese= 1 kilo, 12 piasters / Potato= 1 kilo - / Pekmez= 1 kilo, 20 piasters / Dried fig= 1 kilo - / Mashed tomato= 1 kilo - / Gas oil= 1 kilo - / Wood= 1 kilo, 0.1 piasters / Sopa= 1 kilo, 25 piasters / Flour= 1 kilo – / Sugar= 1 kilo - / Dried okra= 1 kilo, 0.1 piasters / Chickpea= 1 kilo - / Black pepper= 1 kilo - / Chili pepper= 1 kilo - / Tahina= 1 kilo, 12 piasters / Vinegar= 1 kilo - / Starch= 1 kilo - / Dried grape= 1 kilo - / Green pea= 1 kilo - / Coal= 1 kilo, 1 piasters / Mutton= 1 kilo, 20 piasters / Beef= 1 kilo, 14 piasters / Goat’s meat= 1 kilo, 16 piasters / Fresh aubergine= 1 kilo - / Squash= 1 kilo, 2 piasters / Pumpkin= 1 kilo - / Cucumber= 1 kilo – / Spinach= 1 kilo, 1 piasters / Lettuce= 1 kilo, 1.1 piasters / Lemon= A big one, 0.25 piasters, a small one 0.2 piasters / Orange= a big one, 0,3 piasters, a small one 0,25 piasters / Egg= each one 0.3 piasters It has been stated that no price could be set for the rare and off-season provisions mentioned in this letter and the enclosed list, that the officially fixed prices of provisions be determined based on the current market rate in the town and accordingly filled out in line with their types; and it has been decided that an official report be additionally drawn up and presented to the office of mutasarrifate. The 19th of Nîsân (1)333 (19th of April 1917). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/prices-19-april-1917-gregorian-calendar-19-nisan-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 |