The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 255 parchment leaves (size 19.5 cm by 15 cm).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 21-23 lines per page.[2] The leaves were arranged in quarto.[3]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections whose numbers are given at the margin.[3]
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel; it contains lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading. Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.[3]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixture of the Byzantine text-families in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it represents textual cluster 1167.[5]
The manuscript was written by John, a priest, in 1199.[6]
Formerly the manuscript was held at the monastery VatopediatAthos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, in 1655, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[7]
^ abcdK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61.
