Nikodim Kondakov hypothesized that the psalter was created in the famous monastery of St John the Studite in Constantinople.
Nicodem Pavlovitch Kondakov was born in Russia in 1844, at Khalan village, Kursk Governorate.
Courtesy of the count, its first printed edition was prepared by Nikodim Kondakov and Fyodor Buslaev.
The first to discover and study the manuscript were three Russian scholars: Vladimir Stasov, Fyodor Buslayev, and Nikodim Kondakov.