Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p42b/item313 |
Title | List of repairs to be done in convent in Jerusalem, 17 November 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 4 Tishrîn thânî 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-11-17 |
Dates Start | 1910-11-17 |
Dates End | 1910-11-17 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Register of instructions for Dayr al-Sultân, al-Habash convent Piasters 90 Repair of ablution houses, 18 square meters, and 5 centimeters 500 Repair of homes located on al-Sultânî road that leads to Ishaq Pasha, 100 square meters, and 5 centimeters 150 Install wood and zinc shades for the entrance of the wheat house, 7/14 49 Install water pipe for this house, 7 meters, and 7 centimeters 789 According to verbal orders issued by the district council about repairing some shops in Dayr al-Sultân, the mentioned shops have been inspected with the knowledge of the municipality’s president and engineer Pascal Effendi; it has become evident that the above mentioned shops need repairs for a sum of 789 piasters to be paid in installments. In order to start with these repairs with the knowledge of one of us Hâj ‘Alî Effendi, Muhammad Effendi al-Qutub and the recommended engineer. The needed money should be paid from the municipality’s treasury, until compensations are paid from the concerning party. This decision was taken on the 4th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)326 (17th of November 1910). [6 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |