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Concerning the reign of Abbas, and what was done in his days. And the lives of the monks and the ascetic hermits ..................................................................................................... 749
Concerning the reign of Ashot, son of Abbas, and what was done in his days; and the construction of holy places....................................................................................................... 755
Concerning the Catholicosate office of the chief bishop of Lord Khachik and the building of the church and the house of the Catholicosate in the village of Argin.................................................................................................... 758
Regarding the war of the Greeks that occurred in Amit, and the appearance of a star; and the death of King Kur-Zhan....................................................................................................................... 759
Regarding the reign of Smbat, son of Ashot, and the building of the wall of Ani together with the church, and the arrival of the kouropalates a high-ranking Byzantine court title David to Shirak ................................................................. 760
Regarding the arrival of the emir commander Ablhaj in Armenia, and later the removal of his authority, and his death by strangulation................................................................................................................... 761
Concerning the massacre in Vaspurakan and the imprisonment of the princes at the hands of Abulsup, the emir of Gotha ............................................................................................................. 761
Concerning the reign of Basil of the Greeks, and the tyranny of Bardas, and the devastation of the land of the Greeks ........................................................................................................................... 762
Regarding the final war of the Greeks, and the flight of the tyrant Bardas ................... 763
Concerning the emirate domain of an emir of Ibn Khosrov and his wisdom..................................................... 765
Concerning the reign of Abbas in Kars and his good deeds, and the building of the Shirim monastery in his own name ............................................................................................................. 766
How Ablhaj, son of Ravda, came to the city of Dvin and, having taken tribute from the Armenians, returned ........... 767
Again, Ablhaj came to the land of Vaspurakan, and his death. And the becoming of emir by Mamlan, his son...................................................................................................................... 768
Regarding the passage of King Basil through the Armenian people into the land of the Macedonians; and persecution by the metropolitan a senior bishop of Sebastia ............................................................................ 769
The response to the letter of the metropolitan of Sebastia, written by the command of Lord Khachik, Catholicos of the Armenians ............................................................................................................................. 770
How the metropolitan of Sebastia died a miserable death; and concerning the kings of the Bulgarians who killed him ..................................................................................... 800
How King Basil of the Greeks went with his armies into the land of the Bulgarians and, having been defeated, fled and returned back ............................................................................................ 801