The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels, on 220 parchment leaves (size 21 cm by 15 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), at the margin, with τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last section of Mark is ended in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons. References to the Eusebian Canons are written in the same line with the Ammonian Sections (unusual).[6][5]
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any formal Category.[7] The text of the manuscript was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8] In result its textual character is still unknown.
This codex' version of John 8:8 contains a textual variant: ἕνος ἑκάστου αὐτῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας (the sins of every one of them); the same textual variant is found in certain other manuscripts: Codex Nanianus, Minuscule 73, 331, 364, 700, 782, 1592, Old Latin manuscripts, and Armenian manuscripts.[9]
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century,[5] Gregory dated it to the 12th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th or 13th century.[4]
At the end of 1943, the frequency of the bombing of Berlin increased. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them minuscule 658). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.[10]
^ abcHermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 162
^ abcK. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 86.
^Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle–Aland, 26 edition, p. 274; UBS3 357
^Sroka Marek, The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments, Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 651-664
