The head-piece to the Gospel of John contains the incorporated medallion bearing a half-length image of Jesus Christ.

[4] There is no sign of interrogative, the nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated forms, the errors of itacism are frequent (e.g.

[6] The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type (except Pauline epistles).

Eduard de Muralt and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.

[2][3] Until the 1540s the manuscript was kept at the Great Lavra of St Athanasius on Mount Athos, then it belonged to Pierre Seguier (1588-1672), Chancellor of France.

[7] At the end of the 18th century Peter P. Dubrovsky (1754-1816), serving as the secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris, acquired the manuscript.

The restoration work of the manuscript was made in 1968, the portraits of the four Evangelists were repainted.