Bidspirit auction | Acre 1905-1907 Diary in Arabic


Acre 1905-1907 Diary in Arabic handwriting. Probably of a land owner. Names of Palestinian landowners? Palestine, Ottoman period. - A thick Arabic diary written in Acre between 1905 and 1907. The diary probably belonged to a landowner or his accountant. Apparently, each column or page header contains the name of a lessor of a plot of land, and his debt. In some columns, a debt or payment is indicated in monetary value, in other columns, weights/yields of agricultural produce are written. The diary has been researched very superficially, and it may be an important historical item that requires further research. The diary includes hundreds of written pages, most of them with few written lines, some pages are almost completely full.  The first entry date is1905, the last 1907 48x21 cm. Very good condition.