The codex contains a parts of the Matthew 1:1-14; 5:3-19; 23:9-25:30; 25:43-26:26; 26:50-27:16; Mark 1:1-43; 2:21-5:1; 5:29-6:22; 10:51-11:13,[3] on 29 parchment leaves (33 cm by 26 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page,[1] in large uncial letters.[2]
It contains numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters), τιτλοι (titles), the Ammonian Sections (not Eusebian Canons).[4] It is very hard to read.
In Matthew 5:11 οι ανθρωποι along with g1, q, vgs, syrs,c; it has also additional ρημα (as C, W, Θ, 0196).[5]
In Matthew 26:7 – βαρυτιμου along with B, W, 089, 0255, f1, f13, Byz; the other manuscripts read πολυτιμου (Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Bezae, Regius, Koridethi, 33, 565, 892, 1010 1424).[6]
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.[7]
The text of menaion was written by Archbishop of Selymeria in 1431.[2] The manuscript was discovered in 1881 by Abbott and MahaffyinBlenheim Palace. Gregory in 1883 found two leaves more.[4]
^Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV.
J. P. Mahaffy, An uncial MS of the Gospels, Athenaeum (London, 2 July 1881).
Hermann von Soden,『Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte,』Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902, pp. 79–80.