47 It begins in the Name of the Lord to the Emperor.

By your most devout and serene benevolence we are urged to these things which we believe are an opportunity for us so that in confidence we may intimate them to your ears. And since we sought to know that servant of yours, our relative, the son of Scaptimundus to stay with us in the royal city where we are strong thus we entreat by most pious prayer he who would act through your example in governing the Roman state very happily by succession so allow his longings by your tranquillity for his own relations for either his life is deemed worthy and has eternal majesty to fulfill when you order the servant himself by your calmness to be released to us then he will arrive by the consideration of divinity or by the future result of retribution so that you permit this because of our courteous entreaties and thus you raise the aspiration for your name and for mercy.

INCIPIT AD IMPERATORE DE DOMNO NOMINE.

Piissime serenitatis vestrae benignitas nos invitat

ad ea, quae nobis oportuna credimus, ut, fiducia cogente,

vestris auribus intimemus, Et quoniam cognovimus, illum

famulum vestrum, parentum nostrum, filium Scaptimundi apud

vos in urbe regia commorari, qua valimus praece devotissime

supplicamus, per qui vestrum culmen Romanum rempublicam

longa feliciter faciat seriae gubernari et sic desideria

tranquillitatis vestrae de propria parentilla vel filiorum

vita dignetur implere maiestas aeterna, ut ipsum vestrae

tranquillitatis famulum ad nos relaxari praecipiatis venturum

divinitatis intuitu vel retributionis future proventu,

quatenus, cum hoc nobis supplicibus dignanter annuetis,

exaltetis gloriam vestri nominis et mercedis. Finit feliciter.