The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) containing the text of the four Gospels with some missing portions (Matthew 6:4-21; John 13:16-21:25) on 180 parchment leaves (sized 21 cm by 16 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.[3][4][5]
The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections, the last in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[5][6]
It contains the Epistle to Carpianus (a letter by the early church father Eusebius outlining his gospel division system), Prolegomena to John, tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical reading); subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with the numbers of lines (known as στιχοι / stichoi) and numbers of verses (in John); it contains portraits of the Evangelists placed before each Gospel.[5]
The Greek text of the codex is considered eclectic. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iηb. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category of his New Testament manuscripts classification system.[7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[8]
According to a note the manuscript once belonged to Emilio H. F. Alteri in Rome in 1871.[5]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (690e),[6] Gregory (872e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]
Biblical scholar F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]
^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. 153.
^ abAland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 98. ISBN3-11-011986-2.
^ abc"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
