Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p3a/item17 |
Title | Decision to repair and clean cistern, 2 November 1897 (Gregorian date) - 20 Tishrîn Awwal 1313 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1897-11-02 |
Dates Start | 1897-11-02 |
Dates End | 1897-11-02 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Since the newly built cistern on the road leading to Shârlût school has been found to be full of dust and sewage water and _______ and some repairs are needed, it has been decided by the council to take care of the needed repairs and the cleaning under the supervision of one of us, Yûsuf Effendi Nussaybi and the engineer Ihrâhîm, in such a way that the expenses won’t exceed one thousand piasters to be paid in installments. In order to respond positively and spend the mentioned amount from the treasury of the municipality in Jerusalem ______ , this decision was taken on the 21st of Aylûl (1)313 (3rd October 1897). [5 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-to-repair-and-clean-cistern-2-november-1897-gregorian-date-20-tishrin-awwal-1313-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 |