Verso: Letter in Arabic script to an unknown recipient from ʿAlī Efendi, the commander of Damietta's janissary garrison. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 1119 1119 AH (1708 …
Recto
Upper Left Side, parallel to lines 3–5: ʿAlī Efendi’s seal
توكلي على الله في كل الأمور
Verso
[باسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
- بعد وان سالتم عنا فانن…
Muʿallim Mūsā is coming [back] to you, and now, as for you, when [this] letter reaches you,
obtain a letter from his excellency the Ketḫüdā al-Waqt and a letter from the amīr Yūsuf Bey and a letter
from the amīr Süleymān Odabaşı and ‘Abdullāh Odabaşı, addressed to us, stating in them, ‘When the letters arrive,
look into the Christian’s account in your residence and send them [the accounts?] to us’. In addition to the letters to us, [there should be] a letter
from the amīr Yūsuf Bey and a letter from the Ketḫüdā al- Waqt and a letter from Süleyman Odabaşı and Abdullah Odabaşı
addressed to Meḥmed Agha, [the] current tax farmer, telling them to draw up the account in the house of the amīr ʿAlī Efendi [the writer of the present letter].