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Selection of appointment registers from the records of the awqāf of the Maghariba neighborhood

  • TR-VGMA
  • Collection
  • 1303-10-15-1914-09-28

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.

Jerusalem Awqâf Administration (KEAM)

Collection of Ottoman documents, Jerusalem (Kudus) section

  • BG-NBKM/283A
  • Fonds
  • 1550-01-01-1908-12-31

Since the documents were sent from Istanbul and mostly from the former Ottoman ministry of finances’s depositories, they mainly deal with financial issues and are related to all the former Ottoman provinces ( the Balkans, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa).

The fonds 283A includes 469 archival units (that is, folders) stored into 7 boxes. Most of the folders only contains one single document, but sometimes there are two to three, in rare cases even more documents. Some of the documents are torn and therefore are just fragments simply because the initial purpose of their transportation to Bulgaria was to be recycled in a paper mill as said above. Some other documents are in a poor condition, the edges being rotten and the text partly illegible. These damaged documents had already been taken out for chemical restoration when the inventory was made by Orlin Sabev, therefore they could not have been included into it.
The documents of fonds 283A date from the mid-16th to the early 20th century. The earliest document is dating from 1550 (fragment of a register of zeamets in the district of Doha), while the latest one is from 1908 (related to revenue collection). The 19th century documents prevail, however the number of the 17th- and 18th-century documents is also considerable. In terms of content, almost all of them deal with financial issues related mostly to incomes from taxes, expenses for the officers who guarded the fortress of Jerusalem, as well as some other minor fortresses in the region, and transfer of waqf posts with the respective salary from one holder (mostly because of his death) to another holder. Having this in mind, the documents of Fonds “Jerusalem” preserved in the National Library in Sofia could be useful for studying the socio-economic history of Jerusalem and its province during the Ottoman period.

The descriptions mention in parenthesis Gregorian dates, and into an other set of parenthesis Hijri dates and Rumi dates. When the author of the description could not read the spelling for sure, words have been put into square brackets.
In addition, the author wrote for a number of nouns the spelling in modern Turkish into parenthesis.

Finally, the nature of this fonds couldn't provide a properly structured analysis according to international standards of archival description, so we chose to divide the inventory into artificial series of 50 items, in order to ease the reading and searching.

Ministry of Finance of the Ottoman Empire (ML)

Cevdet Paşa’s collection

  • TR-BOA/C
  • Collection
  • 1553-01-01-1904-12-31

This fonds includes documents gathered by Cevdet Pasa and arranged by him according to their topic.

Ahmed Cevdet Paşa (ACP)

Archive of the Parish of Saint Saviour in Jerusalem, Custody of the Holy Land

  • JM-ASCTS/P/SSalvatore
  • Fonds
  • 1617-07-09-1977-02-28

Structure of the fonds: global extent: 62 files; 9 July 1617 - 28 Feb. 1977
Series A, Manuals. Global extent: 1 file; 5 Sept. 1733 - Feb. 1849
Series B, Holy Masses. Global extent: 8 files; 1st May 1853 - 31 May 1974
B-I, "Pro populo" masses. Global extent: 3 files; 1st May 1853 - 25 Dec. 1936
B-II, Masses dedicated to parishioners (“ad intentionem parochi”). Global extent: 5 files; 2 Jan. 1950 - 31 May 1974
Series C, Sacraments registers. Global extent: 33 files; 9 July 1617 - [Post 1960]
C-I, Mixed registration [Registration of births, marriages and deaths]. Global extent: 1 file; 4 Jan. 1906 - 26 Dec. 1906
C-II, Baptisms. Global extent: 6 files; 9 July 1617 - 25 Dec. 1938
C-III, Reconciled. Global extent: 1 file; 27 Feb. 1858 - 3 Oct. 1913
C-IV, Weddings (nuptials). Global extent: 3 files; 1732 - 14 Jan. 1911
C-V, Sacraments to sick people and pregnant women (“ad ammalati e partorienti”). Global extent: 5 files; 25 Sept. 1954 - 23 May 1962
C-VI, Deaths. Global extent: 2 files; 4 Jan. 1906 - 30 Dec. 1922
C-VII, Parish family books (latin "Status animarum", meaning "State of Souls"). Global extent: 15 files; 1836 - [Post 1960]
Series D, Correspondence. Global extent: 12 files; 31 Oct. 1729 - [1970ca.]
D-I, Marriages. Global extent: 3 files; 31 Oct. 1729 - 17 Nov. 1953
D-II, Miscellanea. Global extent: 9 files; 20 May 1835 - [1970ca.]
Series E, Charities. Global extent: 3 files; Feb. 1885 - Dec. 1954
Series F, Chronicles. Global extent: 4 files; [1935ca.] - 28 Feb. 1977
Series G, Archives from the Pious Union of St. Anthony. Global extent: 1 file; 23 Sept. 1894 - 12 June 1921

Custody of the Holy Land (CTS)

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