The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, General epistles, and Pauline epistles, on 265 parchment leaves (size 17.1 cm by 12.1 cm), with lacunae at the beginning and end (Acts 1:1-2:27; Revelation 18:22-22:21). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.[2] The Latin text is alongside the Greek, the Greek column on the right.[3]
The Latin column contains Prolegomena at the beginning and subscriptions at the end of each sacred book.[3][4]
The words are moved very often or put in Latin order; even division of the lines and syllables follow the Latin order.[4]
The beginning of 1. Corinthians: Courtesy of: www.Biblical-data.org
The Greek text of the codex has been revised according to the Vulgate.[4][5] The Greek text is made to conform to the Vulgate Latin text, but the assimilation is far from complete. It has some Western elements in the Pauline epistles.[6]
Kurt and Barbara Aland placed the Greek text of the codex in Category III.[7] In the General epistles it has the number of singular readings.[8] It has some unusual readings added by a later hand.[3]
It has a unique reading of Acts 8:37, specifically mentioning the eunuch.
In Romans 8:1 it reads Ιησου κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν, for Ιησου (as א, B, D, G, 1739, 1881, itd, g, copsa, bo, eth). The reading of the manuscript is supported by A, Db, Ψ, 81, 2127, vg. The Byzantine manuscripts read Ιησου μη κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν αλλα κατα πνευμα.[9]
In 1 Corinthians 7:5 it reads τη προσευχη (prayer) along with 𝔓11, 𝔓46, א*, A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 6, 33, 81, 104, 181, 630, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, it, vg, cop, arm, eth. Other manuscripts read τη νηστεια και τη προσευχη (fasting and prayer) or τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting).[10][11]
In 1 Corinthians 7:14 it reads ανδρι τω πιστω for αδελφω. The reading is supported only by Old Latin manuscripts (ar, c, dem, t, x, z) and Peshitta.[12]
It has singular reading in 2 Corinthians 2:10 – τηλικουτου κινδυνου; other manuscripts read τηλικουτου θανατου or τηλικουτων θανατων.[13]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, who examined a major part of the manuscript.[19] It was examined by Henry Alford. A facsimile of the passage 1 John 5:7-8 (Comma Johanneum) was traced in 1829 by Cardinal Wiseman for Bishop Burgess, and published by Horne in several editions of his Introduction, as also by Tregelles.[3] It was examined and described by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi.[20]C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
Formerly it was labeled by 162a[21] and 200p.[22] In 1908 Gregory gave the number 629 to it.[1]
It was examined and described by Ernesto Feron and Fabiano Battaglini.[23]
^ abcdK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 84.
