The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 268 leaves (size 25.2 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 22-24 lines per page[2] in an elegant minuscule letters.[3][4] The capital letters in red.[4]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Matthew 360, Mark 240 – 16:19; Luke 342, John 232), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]
It contains the Epistle to Carpianum, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, portraits of the four Evangelists, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of στιχοι (in Mark).[3] It is elegantly written. It has scholia in Matthew and two scholia in Mark (16:19.20).[4]
It has various readings and personal notes in the margin of the codex written in Greek and Arabic.[3][4] The text of Matthew is surrounded by a catena (largely derived from the homilies of John Chrysostom).[3]
The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[2] It was written in Syria or Palestina.[9]
According to Arabic notes on a margin, the manuscript was later in the property of a Presbyter David, the son of Micheal the Metropolitan of Bosra.[7]C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
^ abcdK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.