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Commissioned by Bishop Karapet for the Monastery of Pawloskan (modern Kozan, Türkiye), 1193. Catholicos John VI [Katholikos Ohannes (Yovhannes or ?????????) VI of the Holy See of Cilicia], Hromkla (modern Rumkale, Türkiye), before 1221, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Smbat (nephew of Catholicos John VI), Hromkla (modern Rumkale, Türkiye), 1221, by gift. Khodja Hovannes (Yohannes), between 14th and 18th centuries, by gift. Monastery of T'umay A?ak'eal (Apostle Thomas), between 14th and 18th centuries, by donation. Gevork', son of Nazluxan [Knazlu Khatun], 1770, [location and mode of acquisition unknown]; Ter Hohannes, late 18th-early 19th century, by gift [location unknown]. In New Nakhijevan (modern Rostov-on-Don, Russia), before 1889 to after 1903 [1]. Henry Walters, Baltimore, by 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown] [2]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] The location of the manuscript is unknown between 1903 and 1931, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory at some point during World War I and the Armenian Genocide.[2] Possibly acquired from Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, ca. 1930, according to a letter in the Walters Art Museum Archives from Dikran Kelekian to Dorothy Miner dated 12 December 1945. In the letter, however, certain details are confused with W.539.

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