The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 444 paper leaves (size 24.9 cm by 17.5 cm).[3] According to Scrivener it has 441 leaves.[5] The text of Matthew 1:1-2:18 was supplied by a later hand.[1]
The text is written in one column per page, 33-37 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top. According to Gregory there is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections.[6]
It contains lectionary markings and Synaxarion (liturgical book). It has a commentary of Theophylact.[5]
Martin and after him Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century; Gregory dated it to the 14th or 15th century.[6] According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1318.[3][4] The name of scribe was John (?), from Chalcedon (?).[6]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (761) and Gregory (740). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]
^ abHermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 267.
