Petition to an unnamed Ottoman official from Pinḥas son of Yūsuf. Dating: c. 1620s CE (per Hathaway), an estimate which is supported by the probable …
This slave [i.e., the writer] accepts [the tax farm]
for
the 500 gold pieces that he has agreed to [lit., ‘undertaken’],
with an increase [in the purchase price] of 20,000 pāras, on the condition that the aforementioned [Saʿadia?]