History of Vardan and the Armenian War

Printed during the patriarchate of the Christ-created holy throne of Etchmiadzin, of Lord Simeon, the most holy Catholicos of All Armenians.
And during the patriarchate of the holy Jerusalem of Lord Karapet, the joyful vardapet doctor of the church, and of Constantinople of Lord Grigor, the humble-souled vardapet.
In the city of Constantinople.
By the means and expenses of the holy Etchmiadzin congregant, Abraham vardapet.
In the Armenian year 1213 [= 1764], on April 10.
In the printing house of the late Astvatsatur.

Pages 4–8. Introduction "To the holy reader of this book" — by the philologist "the humblest servant of your nobility, Stepanos Petrosean from Akn."
Page 9 blank.
Page 10. A portrait of Yeghishe standing with a book; underneath is written:

The Great Yeghishe, a man of genius,
Splendid with Athenian learning,
Narrating the Ghevondians
As well as the Vardanian warriors.

With new pagination, pages 3–207. Yeghishe's History of Vardanank.
Pages 208–212. A concise index of the chapters of this holy book, together with sections. As a sample, we present: page 3 "Chapter A. In the beginning of the first chapter, it shows how the history is to be recorded, and what the readers will gain from it."

Or at the end of page 203, a note: "Note that the cross-marked passages with a crescent shape are those marked by the saint himself, and the rest are by us, as they are identified."

Pages 212–214. "Conclusion regarding this holy book for the benevolent reader."
Pages 215–216. Errors with the following title: "Here we place the mistakes from the printing and those remaining from the proofreading, along with the corrections."
Pages 217–220. "Colophon of the printing of this holy book."

We find it necessary to include several sections from the "Introduction," "Conclusion," and "Colophon."

Page 6. In the "Introduction," while emphasizing the necessity of telling the heroic deed of the Vardanants and saying that Yeghishe vardapet performed this task, it continues: "So that sons having read might tell their sons, so that by holding the visible works of bravery that are of faith in memory, having been encouraged, we may be kindled in the same mind." Yeghishe's book is printed as spiritual food, so that there may be no famine of hearing the Lord's word among us, says the author (Amos 8:11).

Pages 213–214. In the "Conclusion": "...But now, let this also be made known: that the author of this holy book, although he had promised at the very beginning to speak in seven chapters, and to add other things to them, nevertheless, for the sake of removing some tediousness and in the pursuit of pleasantness, I have indicated the longer ones among them by titling short sections according to the various paragraphs."