[3] It contains prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of στιχοι.
[3] The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type.
The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping.
As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them minuscule 257).
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Fonds der Berliner Hss, Graec.