Letter 17: [Instructions for Pullio, subdeacon.
5 Cum dei adiutorio et orationibus sanctonim apostolorum Petri et Pauli ueniens ad Nicopolim sic debes agere, ut post- quam episcopus Nicopolitauus acceperit litteras nostras, epi- scopos, qui sunt in sua paroecia, colligat et faciat sub- scribere in libellum, quem in epistolis suis babent adnexum.
10 si tamen dixerit praedictus episcopus esse laboriosum episcopos 2 colligere, dirigat tecum personas per singulos episcopos, ut te praesente subscribant in praedictum libellum. sic tamen 3 cum dei inisericordia facere debes, ut epistolae, quae<a> nobis missae sunt, publice legantur, aut si uideris prae timore hoc
15 episcopos facere noUe, saltem uel clericis suis haec relegant. quae tamen in ipsorum dimitte potestatem et scripta episco- porum et illius episcopi, hoc est loliannis metropolitani, ad nos cum dei misericordia reporta. post hoc factum nullas 4 moras te uolumus ibidem facere propter insidias et calliditates
20 inimicorum.
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Honnisda lohanni Nicopolitano cnm synodo
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