Scribed by Evagus the Anchorite, to be delivered to his Prudence, the Protospathos Carpus Asinas. On the ninth month of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of our Emperor and three months before the Holy Night of our Faith

I. May God preserve you, my brother Carpus. I must scribe with haste and agony, and the last of my strength this epistle, forasmuch I fear it will be the final one that I manage to deliver to you.

II. I pray that my messenger escapes the strangling siege of the heathen dogs...