Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol2/p7b/item45 |
Title | List of supplies for renovation or building works partly in Arabic; item in Ottoman, 15 August 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 3 Agustos 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1894-08-15 |
Dates Start | 1894-08-15 |
Dates End | 1894-08-15 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | American wood Swedish wood Swedish wood Swedish wood White wood white wood [illegible] helmet? [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] plank wood [illegible] [illegible] plank for brick-making? large domes For the wood and timber necessary for the ongoing construction of the official buildings in Kerek, a Dutch auction was organized under the supervision of the Staff Officer Tevfik Effendi. In addition to these woods, in accordance with the bill herewith enclosed by the inquiry official Reserve Lieutenant Hamid Effendi, wood at a worth of 7,747.30 piasters was purchased and sent to Kerek. The contractor demands this to be paid and when Hamid Effendi was inquired about the issue, he responded that a said amount of wood was purchased as demanded by the Staff Officer Tevfik Effendi. Additionally, apart from the wood put to Dutch auction, 100 woods and 30 wooden girder were purchased for the military hospital. In the telegraph, dated 11 August 1894, sent from the Mutasarifate of Maan, it was stated that the cost of these products, which is approximately 3,700 piasters, be covered from the sum sent here from Salt. However, nothing has been said about the cost of the ones additionally purchased. It is appropriate to send a decree to the said mutasarrifate in order to explain from which source the cost of these extra products must be paid. The 3rd of Agustos (1)310 (15th of August 1894). [4 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic 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 |