Verse prolog known as Varlaam's Prolog, with abbreviated lives for every day of the second half of the ecclesiastical year, March through August. Incomplete (the end is missing). Scribal inscription on leaf 287a, with date of copying, 7062 [1554] and scribe's name. Inside the front cover, an inscription dated 1798 indicating location of the manuscript and owner's name. Leaves 287b and 169a, minor inscriptions, one of them dated 1882. Leaf 136b, scribal remark instructing the binder on how to arrange quires (which he numbered erroneously). Ornamented headings and initials.