The codex contains portions of the four Gospels on 257 parchment leaves (30 centimetres (12 in) by 23 centimetres (9.1 in)) in the Western order: Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. The text of the codex is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.[1] The letters are large and lean to the left. The letters have breathings and accents.[2]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[2]
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and musical notes. There are no itacistic errors.[2]
Over the original breathings and accents some later scrawler has, in many places, put others, in a very careless fashion.[3]
At the end of the Gospel of John it has subscription ετελειωθη η δελτος αυτη μηνι νοεμβριω κζ ινδ η ημερα ε ωρα Β. Tischendorf, by the aid of Ant. Pilgrami's Calendarium chronologum medii potissimum aevi monumentis accommodatum (Vienna 1781), states that the only year between 800 and 950, with November 27 on a Thursday, was 844.[3]
Another possible year is 979.[2]
InMatt. 27:49 codex contains added text: ἄλλος δὲ λαβὼν λόγχην ἒνυξεν αὐτοῦ τὴν πλευράν, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὕδορ καὶ αἷμα (the other took a spear and pierced His side, and immediately came out water and blood). This reading was derived from John 19:34 and occurs in other manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type (א, B, C, L, 1010, 1293, pc, vgmss).[5]
One part of the codex was found by Tischendorf in an eastern monastery in 1853, another part in 1859.[7] As a result, the codex is divided and housed in two places. 158 leaves were bought in 1855 and they are housed in the Bodleian Library (Auct. T. infr 2.2) in Oxford and 99 leaves of the codex are located now in the National Library of Russia (Gr. 33) in Saint Petersburg.[1][8]
The Petersburgian leaves were described by Kurt Treu.[9]
^Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV.
^Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, p. 128.
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
^Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 41-43.
Constantin von Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana (Leipzig: 1855), pp. 5–6.
Constantin von Tischendorf, Notitia edit. Cod. Bibl. Sin, Leipzig 1860, p. 53.
Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 41–43.
