The letters αι and ε, η, ει and ι, ο and ω, and sometimes οι and υ are confused.

At the end of the Second Epistle to Timothy it has the subscription Τιμοθεον Β' απο Ρωμης, the same as manuscripts 6, 1739, 1881.

The Greek text of the Pauline and General epistles is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with a large number of an alien readings.

The reading of the manuscript is supported by אc, Dc, K, 33, 88, 104, 181, 326, 330, (436 omit μη), 456, 614, 630, 1241, 1877, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect.

[7] The ending of the Epistle to the Romans has an unusual order of verses: 16:23; 16:25–27; 16:24 (as in codices 33 104 256 263 365 436 459 1319 1573 1837 1852 syrp arm).

[8] In 1 Corinthians 7:5 it reads τη προσευχη (prayer) along with 𝔓11, 𝔓46, א*, A, B, C, D, F, G, Ψ, 6, 33, 81, 104, 181, 629, 630, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, it vg, cop, arm, eth.

[9][10] In 1 Timothy 3:16 it has textual variant θεός ἐφανερώθη (God manifested) (Sinaiticuse, A2, C2, Dc, K, L, P, Ψ, 81, 104, 181, 326, 330, 436, 451, 614, 629, 630, 1241, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect), against ὃς ἐφανερώθη (he was manifested) supported by Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, Ephraemi, Boernerianus, 33, 365, 442, 2127, ℓ 599.

The manuscript was discovered by Tischendorf in 1862 at Saint Petersburg in the possession of the Archimandrite Porphyrius Uspensky, who allowed him to take it to Leipzig to decipher lower script.