Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p36b/item236 |
Title | Upon a marginal note regarding provisions necessary for Jerusalem soldiers from the beginning of August of 1323, 24 August 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 11 Ağustos 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-08-24 |
Dates Start | 1907-08-24 |
Dates End | 1907-08-24 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the marginal note given on 6 August 1323 by the Commandership regarding the provisions necessary for Jerusalem soldiers from the beginning of August of 1323 (14 August 1907) until its end (13 September 1907) Aubergine = 1 kilo, 0.14 piasters / Gumbo = 1 kilo, 0.2 piasters / Potato = 1 kilo, 0.3 piasters / Tomato = 1 kilo, 0.19 piasters / Fresh grape = 1 kilo, 0.18 piasters / Redpepper = 1 kilo, 1.4 piasters / Jaffa watermelon = 1 kilo, 0.1 piasters This explanation has been made to confirm that the prices written in the attached bill of the vegetables, etc. determined through the rate of daric-i bender have been considered to be average and in compliance with market values. The 11th of Ağustos (1)323 (24th of August 1907). |
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 |