The codex contains Lessons from the GospelsofJohn, Matthew, Lukelectionary (Evangelistarium) with some lacunae.[2]
It is written in Greek uncial letters, on 224 parchment leaves (31.5 cm by 23 cm), in two columns per page, 24-25 lines per page.[1][2]
It has decorated headpieces and initial letters. Headpieces are with geometric and foliate decoration in gold or silver.[3] The initial for epsilon has anthropomorphic motive with blessing hand (see illustration).
The manuscript is ornamented, the uncials leaning to the right, a fine copy, with small uncial notes.[4]
The manuscript was named Codex Prusensis from Bursa (in Anatolia or Bithynia).[2]
It was acquired by John Covel, who was a chaplain of the Levant Company in Constantinople between 1670-1676, who brought it to England in the 1670s. After 1676 Covel worked at the Christ's College in Cambridge. He sold it to Robert Harley on 27 February 1715 (or 1716).[3]
^ abcAland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 227. ISBN3-11-011986-2.
^The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), pp. XXVIII, XXX.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5787.
E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part I Greek (1881), p. 23, pl. 17.
