In John 1:27 it has the addition εκεινος υμας Βαπτιζει εν πνευματι αγιω και πυρι (He shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire).

In 1896 Nicholas II of Russia commissioned Fyodor Uspensky's Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople to buy the greater part of it for the Imperial Public Library in St.

[2] The codex was examined by scholar Peter Lambeck, Bernard de Montfaucon, Hermann Treschow, Francis Alter, Hartel, Wickholf, Giuseppe Bianchini, Harry S. Cronin,[7] and Louis Duchesne.

Textual critic Johann Jakob Wettstein examined 4 leaves housed at London (Cotton Titus C. XV) in 1715, and marked them by I.

The same portions were examined and collated for textual critic Johann M. Augustin Scholz by Gaetano Luigi Marini.

[2][11] Textual critic Constantin von Tischendorf published fragments of this manuscript in 1846 in his Monumenta sacra et profana.

[13] Biblical scholar Elijah Hixson published a monograph in 2019 entitled, Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices.