The collection is one of the oldest Stavronikita Monastery on Mount Athos. It is a parchment, four-gospel manuscript which has been written between 1301 and 1350. It comprises 54 pages with dimensions that are approximately 250x185 mm. The script is elegant minuscule and the use of majuscule letters is rare. Tachygraphical symbols and abbreviations are encountered in the manuscript as well. Furthermore, the manuscript is enriched with chrysography, elegant epititles and initials. The dataset of ΧΦ53 consists of 1038 lines of text containing 5592 words (2374 unique words) that are distributed over 54 scanned handwritten text pages.