Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p31a/item218 |
Title | Rates of foodstuffs (cereals), 14 May 1898 (Gregorian date) - 2 Mayîs 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-05-14 |
Dates Start | 1898-05-14 |
Dates End | 1898-05-14 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Wheat: Current grains New kile: 3,000 ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 6,000 ; Barley: Current grains New kile: 1,000 ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 3,000 ; Lentil: Current grains New kile: - ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 100 ; Millet: Current grains New kile: 500 ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 9,000 ; Vetch: Current grains New kile: - ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 200 ; Sesame: Current grains New kile: 550 ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 2,000 ; Total: Current grains New kile: 5,050 ; Local requirement for grains until the harvest season New kile: 20,300 ; In the kaza of Jerusalem, there will be an approximate need for 5050 new kile for the above-written grains and 20300 new kile until the harvest season; and the proportion of seeds sown in summer and winter is the same as the previous year. There has been a 2.5% increase in abundance by comparison with the previous year. As for the requirements until the harvest season, each kilo of wheat shall be bought for 71.5 piasters, barley for 31 piasters, lentil for 65 piasters, millet for 34 piasters, vetch for 45 piasters and sesame for 71.5 piasters, all at the rate of 19 piasters for new oke Silver Mejidie. The 2nd of Mayîs (1)314 (14th of May 1898). [6 signatures] |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/rates-of-foodstuffs-cereals-14-may-1898-gregorian-date-2-mayis-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 |