The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium),[3] with some lacunae.
[1][2] It is also dated by Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago to the 9th or 10th century.
[5] It was bought in Argos in 1930-1931 by Edgar J. Goodspeed (1871-1962), who acquired it from the manager of a Chicago restaurant.
It was described in the media as "the Gangster Bible"; it was also named Argos Lectionary, from the place of its origin.
[6] The manuscript was examined by Clark and William Hatch, and Ernest Cadman Colwell.