The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 337 parchment leaves (size 23.2 cm by 16.7 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[3][4]
It contains Argumentum, tables of the κεφαλαια (chapters) before each Gospel, lectionary markings for liturgical use, incipits, αναγνωσεις (lessons), liturgical books: Synaxarion and Menologion, subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels, and pictures.[5][6]
According to Scrivener it is a beautiful codex.[6]
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century,[5] other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]
The manuscript was brought from Corfu by Joseph Schirus, a monk, in 1729, and presented by him to the library in Grottaferrata. It was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882.[9] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (623)[6] and Gregory (825e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]
^Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 174.
