The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 263 parchment leaves (28.5 cm by 21 cm).[2][3] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.[3]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[4]
Formerly the manuscript was held at the Iviron monasteryatAthos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated and examined by C. F. Matthaei. According to Scrivener it was one of the best manuscript examined by Matthaei.[5]
^ abcK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 62.
^ ab"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788).
Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 268–270.