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
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?]