The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 226 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 15.8 cm), with only two lacunae (Matthew 1:1-6:18; Luke 24:47-53).[3][1] The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.[3][6]
The breathings and accents are remarkable incorrect.[5]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (contents) are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are given at the left margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, the Ammonian Sections, without a references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark (Jerusalem Colophon), numbered stichoi, Synaxarion, and Menologion.[5][6]
According to Scrivener the manuscript is "coarsely written on thick vellum".[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster 686,[8] along with the manuscripts 716 (Luke 20), 748, 1198 (Luke 1 and 10), and 2693 (Luke 1). The cluster has following profile (the word before the bracket is the reading of the UBS edition):
Luke 1:
Luke 1:10 — ην του λαου ] του λαου ην
Luke 1:15 — του ] omit
Luke 1:34 — εσται ] εσται μοι
Luke 1:44 — εν αγαλλιασει το βρεφος ] το βρεφος εν αγαλλιασει
Luke 1:50 — γενεας και γενεας ] γενεαν και γενεαν TR reads: γενεας και γενεαν
Luke 1:63 — εστι(ν) ] εσται
Luke 1:65 — παντα ] omit
Luke 10:
Luke 10:1 — ημελλεν ] εμελλεν
Luke 10:6 — εαν ] εαν μεν
Luke 10:11 — εις τους ποδας ] omit
Luke 10:12 — λεγω ] λεγω δε
Luke 10:36 — πλησιον δοκει σοι ] δοκει σοι πλησιον
Luke 20:
Luke 20:1 — αρχιερεις ] ιερεις
Luke 20:9 — τις ] omit
Luke 20:19 — τον λαον ] οχλον
Luke 20:24 — δηναριον ] δηναριον οι δε εδειξαν και ειπε
According to the colophon the manuscript was written by monk Gregorius in 1337.[6] It was bought by John Jackson on Conant in Fleet Street, in 1777, for five guineas.[5]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (573) and Gregory (686).[5]
^ abHermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 264.
^ abcdAland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN3-11-011986-2.
^Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing (Grand Rapids, 1982), p. 111.
T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible (London, 1979), 1
Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing (Grand Rapids, 1982), pp. 64, 111
