War damage
list of damages and damages suffered established by the Assumptionists, 1948.
list of damages, 1949: successive states, transmission to the administration in charge of the settlement of war damages and military occupation compensation.
correspondence between the Assumptionist community and the District Commissioner's Office of the Government of Palestine.
1948-1949
Inventory
Inventory of the hotel in Saint-Pierre en Gallicante requisitioned, June 28, 1940.
Inventory of the hotel in Saint-Pierre en Gallicante requisitioned, April 24, 1941.
Statement of expenses made by the Maison du Pèlerin for the maintenance of the French hospital, 1950.
Transfer of furniture from Notre-Dame-de-France to Saint-Pierre en Gallicante: correspondence, November 28, 1949 (copy).
Correspondence, reports, notes, accounts.
"P. Athanase Vanhove
Personal meditations:
October-November 1883 (1 notebook)
December 1883-December 1884 (1 notebook)
January-December 1885 (1 notebook)
Personal ephemerides, August 1, 1913-12 December 1914 (notebook).
Lecture and sermon texts, 1886-1913 (classified by theme or place of preaching, with date indication, often incomplete).
Courses received :
Liturgy, 1883-1884.
The Thomist theology, Tractatus of Fortitudine and Temperantia, notebook started on July 4, 1892; De Deo uno et trino, undated; De Incarnatione, undated; Contra impugnante Dei cultum et religionem, undated; Philosophia, undated; meditations on Saint Thomas, 1891; theses of Saint Thomas, undated; De Sacramentis, 1886-1887; De Trinitate, undated.
private canon law, 1896.
Brother Firmin (Désiré-Alfred) Vanhove
Translation of the Literary History of France, handwritten notebook, begun on April 21, 1884. "
- Property titles, sales: summaries of couchans, note by Fr. Dressaire of 1925 on couchans transmitted to the Land Registry in 1920, copies of letters sent to the Land Registry by him, 1920-1925. Contract between the superior of the convent of Notre-Dame-de-France and Fedi Effendi Elaalami, 25 July 1902 (copy), contract between Brother Enagre and the Pelassis brothers, undated; contract between the Pelassis brothers and Pio d'Alonso, 1884; acts of sale.
- Relations between the Assumptionists and the Count of Piellat: will of the Count of Piellat in duplicate, 19 April 1908; correspondence on the transfer of a passage to the Assumptionists by the Count of Piellat (1898-1923).
- Building permit for the Jerusalem City Hall, undated, (2 copies)
- Firman of September 6, 1890 authorizing the construction of the Notre-Dame-de-France hotel business:
- sending by the French diplomatic archives photocopies of the translation of the firman and the letter of receipt from Fr. Germer Durand (1985)
- letter of transmission of the firman by the French consul to Fr. Germer, 6 November 1890; original envelope of the firman transport.
- Land purchases on behalf of P. Augustins de l'Assomption:
- Faidy Effendi's statement of intervention and translation, 1902.
- Copies in French of property registers of the Jerusalem Sandjak (indications of the land concerned, the successive owners, the related tax system), 25 documents.
- Taxes on Simcha Sassoun (purchased from Frustiger), Fedy, Wakef and stores: receipts, amounts payable, 1891-1912.
- Taxes: correspondence, draft circulars on tax exemptions for religious communities, sums due for shops (1928-1931).
- Rufener's property: acknowledgement, receipt, 1880.
Receipts, forms, accounts.
14 pieces
Taxes for the lands of Siloé and Saint-Pierre. 1882-1900. (approx. 60 pieces)
Note: presence of mould, documents to be monitored.
Negotiations between Fr. Leopold and the Government concerning the Ouerko of the Fütiger Garden, St. Peter's Garden and St. Monica's House. 1922-1926. (43 pieces)
Administrative procedures and appeals between the Municipality of Jerusalem and the Assumptionists mainly on the exemption from payment of property tax; appeal to the British High Commission in Palestine. (1913-1914), 1938-1948. (403 pieces)
Holidays: programs, printed thank-you poems, 1901-1914; poetry texts and recitals.
Poems written by the brothers on the occasion of religious holidays: manuscript collection, 1904-1905 (register).
Official ceremonies: lists of participants, seating plan, invitations, 1913-1914.
Death: Announcements, 1907-1910.
Documentation from external novitiates (Livry, Rome, Leuven, Kadiköy):
Fulbert's course in ecclesiastical history on the congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption, 1925 (handwritten notebook), Fr. Benjamin of the novitiate of Louvain on the cult of the Virgin Mary taken by Brother Archangel, 1905-1906 (handwritten notebook), course on religious vows taken by Brother Maur (handwritten notebook), course of Father Léonide on prayer taken by Brother Francis, 1917-1918 (handwritten notebook).
Rome: Course notes on disapproval, the temporal and heart power of the Church, political naturalism, the relationship between Church and State, divorce, Galileo's predestination, Freemasonry, 1889-1890.
Livry: Study Group Decision Summary, July 1898.
Student newspapers :
Journal des étudiants, Rome, n°1, January 1896.
The Novice Cross, No. 3; No. 6-12; No. 14; No. 17, 1896.
The Lighthouse, organ of the Palace, 10 August-22 August 1902, 14 illustrated manuscripts
Ecce quam bonum, illustrated satirical manuscript journal "appearing when he wants", 1904-1906, (first 2 issues in roll form).