It was discovered in Xinjiang by German Turpan expedition team in the early 20th century.

[2] According to Zsuzsanna Gulácsi's interpretation of the fragment, following Albert von Le Coq, in the bottom segment three laymen and three laywomen of the Uyghur royal family are listening to a sermon, while in the upper section elects are giving a sermon.

[1] Drawing attention to the depiction of a flower in the central part of the fragment, Samuel N. C. Lieu instead interprets the fragment as a visionary scene of penitence in the context of the Manichaean doctrine of the imprisonment of Light in living things: "The fear is so apparent on their [the elects'] faces that von Le Coq's original explanation for the miniature as a didactic scene is grossly inadequate.

What we have before us are two Electi terrified at the sight of blood spurting from a damaged plant."

At the bottom, "a group of Hearers (who might have been responsible for the crime) in penitential stance completes a doctrinally significant artistic representation.