Created in Alexandria, the codex consists of 104 pages (52 leaves), and contains the earliest surviving whole copies of the Book of Jonah and 1 Peter, as well as containing Peri Pascha, part of 2 Maccabees (5:27 to 7:41), and an Easter homily.

[3][6] The Codex, as part of the Bodmer Papyri, was discovered in 1952 at the base of a cliff of Jabal Abu Manna, 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the Nag Hammadi library buried in a jar in the sand.

UMiss possessed the codex til 1981, which then passed through Hans P. Kraus (1981–1983), Vinsor T. Savery (1983–1988), and then to Schøyen after an auction at Sotheby's on 12 June 1988.

[1] The Codex was split in two in 1952, with 41 fragments from the beginning being acquired and catalogued by Martin Bodmer, until passing on to the holdings of Professor William H. Willis in 1967.

[1][3][4] The text along with the rest of the Bodmer corpus was buried by the monks in the 7th century during the establishment of the Rashidun Caliphate, where it lay in situ up until its discovery, its preservation attributed to the dry, arid climate of Upper Egypt.