[4][3] It contains Prologues,[3] the Epistle of Jerome to Pope Damasus I (a letter outlining Jerome's Latin translation of the Gospels),[3] the Eusebian Canon Tables, and the tables of contents (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia) before each gospel in both Greek and Latin.

The texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 and John 5:4 are included without any indications of spuriousness, but Luke 22:43 is marked by asterisks to express doubt as to its inclusion.

These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.

[5]: 205–230  Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript classification system.

[4]: 87  It can not be dated earlier, because it has a reference to the (heretical) opinions of Gottschalk of Orbais (died 868) at Luke 13:24 and John 12:40.

[9] It was examined by Martin Gerbert (1773), Scholz, H. C. M. Rettig, biblical scholar J. Rendel Harris, and Oscar von Gebhardt.

[4]: 87  The text of the codex was edited and published by Rettig in 1836, but with some mistakes (e.g. in Luke 21:32 οφθαλμους (eyes) instead of αδελφους (brothers)).