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The documents in Ottoman-Turkish and Arabic kept in the “Cyril and Methodius” National Library contain valuable material for the study of the social, economic, political and cultural development of the Arab countries from the XVIth to the XXth century.
They also offer a rich material for studies in the field of the Arabic and the Ottoman-Turkish diplomatics and paleography, language research, as well as for special regional and town studies.

The value (cost) of the grains (cereals) and the travel expenses for their transportation from the sanjaks of Akka and Quds to Hijaz is 2 375 433 gurush.

The document represents the tenth revenues (varidat-i öshriye) for the liva’s situated in the vilayet of Suriya for 1284. The qaza’s in the sanjaq of Quds-i sherif are the following: Quds-i sheriff, Yafa, Gazza with Madjdal, Ramla with Lad, Khalil, Beni Sa‘b and Nabulus. The total sum of the previous money equivalence (bedel-i sabiq) for the qaza’ of Quds is 5 075 383 gurush.

Table (Djedvel) which represents the revenues for every month of the year 1290, opposite to the documentation expenses (mesarif-i tahririye) for the sanjaqs of Sham-i sheriff, Quds-i sheriff, Beyrut, Tarabulus ash-Sham, Akka, Hama and Balqa’. For example, the revenues for the sanjaq of Quds for the month of Temmuz (July) are 287 691 gurush and 8 pare.

Muhammad Yass attests the receiving of 1362 gurush from the treasury of Quds. The sum represents the rent for the animals (beast) in direction to Yafa in occasion of the question of the Beautiful Earth Israili (qadiyat Ard djamila al-Israiliyya).
Note: the year 1289 is on the stamp of Muhammad Yass.

The judge requests for act of mercy to the sons of deceased es-Seyyid Vehbe. Es-Seyyid Vehbe and his brother es-Seyyid Khalil, sons of es-Seyyid Abduldjevvad ed-Davudi, are employees to the tomb (türbe) of David in Quds. For this service they receive every year one sack (ghirarah) of wheat.