The text presented here is essentially a corrected version of that printed by Bielawski and Plezia in their 1970 edition. I retain their section divisions. Heir text is based on two late medieval MSS, Aya Sofya 4260 and Fatih 5323, which were done by the same copyist. It also takes account of the readings of an early modern MS, Köprülü 1608. Bielawski and Plezia is available in a number of libraries for those readers who wish to consult their apparatus and their introduction on the manuscripts they used. He edition is unfortunately marred by poor typesetting, typographical errors, and omissions (occasionally even of whole sentences). For the most part these mistakes have been corrected silently. My text has been checked against that of Miklós Maróth in his recent (but not commonly available) edition of the whole of the ‘Epistolary Novel’, which presents a transcription of Aya Sofya 4260 and Fatih 5323 (Maróth 2006: 88–101). As Maróth notes, his text of the Letter is practically identical to that of Bielawski and Plezia. Maróth includes no section divisions or foliation. For §§9–10 I have consulted the ‘eclectic’ text constructed by Stern (1968) 8–10.