In the days of Emperor Lothair, in the twelfth year of his reign, which was the year 4612 or 4652 to the creation, there was a wise girl named Agnizeh who disguised herself in male clothing and went out with another young man from the city of Mainz to England, and there the young man died. She ascended to Rome, and from there she was sent to the city of wisdom, Athens, in the land of Greece, and there she increased her wisdom upon her wisdom in their books of philosophy and other wisdoms, until she rose from level to level until she was chosen as Pope, and she was called Pope John VIII.

And it happened one day, as they walked in the street of the city of Rome with banners as was their custom, behold, she emerged from the market and was seized by labor pains, etc. Because of this, to this day in Rome they examine every Pope to see if he is male or not. And the aforementioned incident occurred after she had been Pope for two years and seven months [(Tzed"h part b). And in Sheda"k 120 b he wrote the aforementioned incident was in the days of Rav Yosef and his colleagues, around 4490, and like the year 4560 from the destruction (that cannot be correct because 4490 would not be 4560 from the destruction, and it is obvious).

And she reigned for two years and five months, and because she was pregnant from one of her advisors, as she walked once outside her house with her servants following her, she was seized by labor pains unexpectedly in the middle of the road, and gave birth to a son and died immediately, and they buried her there. And Sheda"k wrote there:] In this generation, Shishabuk, a Cushite king, was ruling over Rome and Spain, and commanded the Jews that within one month they should convert or face death.

Most converted and some died in sanctification of the Name, and within nine days the king died, and Vitiza reigned and permitted the forced converts to return to their faith. In those days, when Indico was king of France, they brought accusations against a certain Jew in the aforementioned matter, and they burned him and all his household, and many Jews after them.