The codex contains a small parts of the Gospel of Matthew 26:75-27:7; 27:9-11.13-17; 28:15-18.20, on 2 parchment leaves (28 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page, in uncial letters. The leaves have survived in a fragmentary condition. It is a palimpsest.[1] The upper text contains Scala paradisiofJohannes Climacus.[2]
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.[1][3]
It is one of the manuscripts discovered in Saint Catherine's Monastery at Sinai in May 1975, during the restoration work.[4]
Currently the codex is housed at the St. Catherine's Monastery (N.E. ΜΓ 48) in Sinai.[1]
^ abcK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, “Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments”, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 43.
