The codex is written in uncial letters up to John 8:39, where it breaks off, and from that point the text is continued in a minuscule hand from the 13th century on 1- parchment leaves.

[3][2]: 172 It contains the Epistle to Carpius (a letter outlying the chapter divisions of the Gospels as devised by the early church father, Eusebius of Caesarea), and the Eusebian tables.

[2] The text has lectionary markings,[2] and according to scholar Christian Frederick Matthaei it is written in a kind of stichometry (sense-lines) by a diligent scribe.

Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system.

In 1655 it was brought by the monk Arsenius to Moscow,[2] on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645–1676).

[4] Textual critic Constantin von Tischendorf used the collation done by Matthaei in his Novum Testamentum.