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Archival records of the French biblical and archaeological school of Jerusalem.

This fonds includes non-political documents about Greece, about the Greek Church, public health, police, pilgrims, and Russians acquisitions and buildings in Palestine.

This fonds includes documents from the Palestinian Commission and Palestinian Comittee about schools, journeys of the imperial family, hospitals and every other issue dealt with by the institution.

The collection contains the following materials: tsars’ rescripts, relations from Envoys in Constantinople, correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission (since 1867 – Embassy), correspondence between the Mission and Ottoman authorities, diplomatic corps in Constantinople, Russian consular offices in the Ottoman Empire (including Jerusalem); correspondence with Russian envoys in other countries, messages on ecclesiastic matters, on Russian property in the Ottoman Empire, on the Russian-Turkish wars, on peace treaties, on the situation in the Balkans, on the police of great states in the Ottoman Empire, international conferences; directives from the Embassy in Constantinople to Russian consulates on the territory of the Ottoman Empire; correspondence with private persons.
The collection also includes thematic files of correspondence between Ambassadors and the Consulate in Jerusalem over several years.
Besides, there are many thematic files on various events in Jerusalem and Palestine.

The selected items are (mainly) documents from the Russian Consulate in Jerusalem, which records had been plundered and lost throughout several wars.

This body of document is composed of registers from the records of the awqāf of the Maghariba neighborhood. They mainly deal with appointments, promotions, and dismissals of waqf employees.
The appointment registers (esās/şaẖsiyāt) are an other primary sources to provide us with adequate information on the actual nature of the social and economic activities of a waqf, or on the changes in these activities over time.

The registers are bound in leather, cloth, or marbled paper, and are written in the inaccessible ṣiyaḳat writing style [...]. Ṣiyaḳat refers to letters and numbers expressed in the “stairs” style of writing, used in Ottoman accounting documents to establish a powerful regime of surveillance, inspection, and communication. Each register starts with an index page. In the index, the records are organized under the headings of the district names and the records were entered on this basis. Records are usually written vertically. The contents provide detailed information about the administrative structure of the area, the names of the district, names of the awqāf and their founders, types of work, previous and current names of office holders, reasons for new postings, fees, names of administrators who can request different postings, and the dates of documents recorded in a specific order and sequence.

While the records in the ʿatīḳ registers are arranged according to their administrative units, the cedīd structure is identical to the waqf registers. These registers began to be kept after 1300/1882, with a specific reference to the ʿatīḳ series. These are also hardcover volumes bound in leather, cloth, or marbled
paper, written in rikʿa, rikʿa crumble, dīvanī or tāʿlīk style. The records are usually written horizontally. Four series of registers make up this collection. The cedīd registers are also organized differently than the ʿatīḳ registers and are written in a systematic way in a chart called the “Register of Professions” (Defter Esās Cihāt). All new appointments and other additions are written in the events section of the chart. Thus, this chart acts as a summary of the activities of the waqfiyya.
The records of the Maghariba neighborhood are located in number 515 of the ʿatīḳ registers (Kudüs ʿatīḳ) and in number 160 of the cedīd (Kudüs cedīd) registers. There is also an index register numbered 163 called the Index of Benghazi and Jerusalem, which includes the index of the ʿatīḳ and cedīd registers.

The Matson Photograph (G. Eric and Edith) Collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the collection consists of over 22,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. Over 1,000 photographic prints and eleven albums are also part of this collection.

This collection lists some sources which are not archives but publications and printed documents which are not part of any archival fonds or sole collection (i.e.: copies of books and printed documents which can be found in different institutions or private collections).

EBAF's Photographic Collection (the ancient photographic collection of the Dominicans of Jerusalem) is located in and belongs to the convent of St. Stephen, Protomartyr of Jerusalem, which houses the French Biblical and Archaeological School (EBAF). Legally, this collection belongs to the convent, thus to the Dominican community, and ultimately to the Order of Preachers.

After the expulsion of the Christian religious community which settled there for the first time in 1427, the convent located in Ain Karem at Saint John the Baptist's birtplace was founded in 1679. Its oldest archives still held by the Custody of the Holy Land are dated from the beginning of the 18th century. The entire fonds consist of general correspondence and of documents related to canonical visits and regulations for instance,