History of Vardan and the Armenian War

with glory, I have honored [you] as much as I could, O God, and also [I offer] prayers with supplication. Accept, O Lord, with reconciliation and mercy, as with the two mites a reference to the widow's mite in the Gospel, as a ransom for my poor soul, in that incorruptible and just court where words are exhausted and deeds reign, in which only truth and justice rule and assist.

And now, I, the sinner and unworthy Vardan, was a desirer of these holy words regarding the sufferings of the holy Vardanantz, which I had desired for many years, and, with the will of the One who desires good things, I completed this with much labor, and I gave it as an offering to the holy apostles Peter and Paul deleted and written over in pencil: George the Warrior, which is in the city of Van opposite the holy sanctuary of Varag. But this was written in the Armenian era 759 (1310) in a narrow and evil time.

Now you who read or copy, ask for the forgiveness of sins for me from God, and for my parents, and brothers, and all my deceased. And for my blessed teacher, Tiratsu, and the cross [that is] with the monk's hope. And may you who remember be remembered by God in double life and in both worlds, through all the intercession of the holy Vardanantz.

And now there is no one who has authority over this, neither of my own nor of strangers; but the lord and ruler of this is God and the holy apostles. For I of my own free will gave this to the holy apostles Peter and Paul as a good memorial for me and my parents and brothers and my wife and my child Zakaria. And let no one dare to remove this from the door of the holy the place is crossed out and written over: apostles Peter and Paul by pawning it, or selling it, or stealing it, or for any [other] reason. And if anyone dares, let him be removed from the mercy of God and receive the curse of Judas. But if they ask for it for the sake of reading or copying, do not refuse, for I have written this for this very reason: that all may be benefited and ask for the forgiveness of my sins from God, to whom be glory forever, Amen."

The Order of the Modes