It is one of the oldest surviving documents written in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic.

308 with Old Church Slavonic musical neumatic notation were also found in the same place as Hilandar Fragments from the 10th and early 11th century (now in Odessa).

The first to discover and study the manuscript were three Russian scholars: Vladimir Stasov, Fyodor Buslayev, and Nikodim Kondakov in 1874.

The book was originally transcribed in Kotor in modern-day Montenegro between 1186 and 1190 from an earlier text.

[2] In 2005, the Miroslav Gospel was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.