[5] The uncial letter of the codex are written in a peculiar form with special attention.
"The uncials being of a peculiar kind, leaning a little to the right; they hold a sort of middle place between square and oblong characters....
The breathings and accents are primâ manu, and pretty correct..."[6] The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, in a close relationship to the minuscules 61 and 69.
[7] Aland placed it in Category V.[3] Uncial 046 is the earliest manuscript which represented the main Byzantine group ("a").
The text of the codex was published by a Cardinal Angelo Mai in 1859 in Rome.