It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Pauline epistles, dated palaeographically to the 6th century.

The manuscript was divided into several parts and was used as raw material for the production of new volumes.

Currently it is housed in several European libraries, in: Paris, Athos, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Moscow, and Turin.

Romans, Philippians, Ephesians, 2 Thes, and Phil have been lost altogether.

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way (ΘΥ, ΠΡΣ, ΧΥ, ΑΝΟΥΣ), the words at the end of the line are contracted.

[10] The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but with a large number of Byzantine readings.

Aland considered the quality of the text to suit his Category III.

[4] The words before a bracket are the readings of Nestle-Aland, the words after a bracket are the readings of the codex The codex was probably written in the 6th century at the library in Caesarea, later coming into the possession of the monastery of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos, but its value appears to have been overlooked.

In 975 some leaves, now known as Fragmenta Mosquensia, were used to cover a volume of Gregory Nazianzen at Mount Athos.

[16] As a result, leaves of the codex were scattered in several places of the monastery, from where they were collected on several occasions by people from France, Russia, and Italy.

The first was Pierre Séguier (1588–1672), who bought 14 leaves which, known later as Fragmenta Coisliniana, and became a part of the Fonds Coislin.

[21] Another part of the codex housed at Athos was published by Kirsopp Lake, in 1905.