TO / AT / TOWARD

God-loving [people/rulers]

As [a] jewel amidst precious stones...

...[-est] is diamond, [and] among metals, go[ld]—

...[ ] and among flowers, a rose, so also among...

[the] first place among ecclesiastical books

[it] contains the *ŽAMAGIRKʿ* (*Žamagirkʿ*, Book of Hours), wherein, as in an exquisite vessel, [is] ga[thered...]

[... gathered and] arranged are the grace-bestowing canticles of the Holy Fathers

of our blessed [ones], through whom, like ever-burning [lamps]

is made bright with lamps and, having rejoiced,

Rejoice, O holy Armenian Church!

And who indeed might there be who does not himself bear witn[ess]—

...[may he/it come to] the truth of these words, for this...

[...]-tion, precious, from those days of the bless[ed...]

...[---] of our Translators until the invention of print[ing]...

of the art of writing, from hand to hand, copy [to copy]—