The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), on 340 parchment leaves.
[5] Caspar René Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century.
[1] It is presently assigned to the 12th century on palaeographic grounds by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
[1] A colophon in Greek and Arabic on folio 1 verso declares: "No one has authority from God to take it away under condition, and whoever transgress this will be under the wrath of the eternal Word of God, whose power is great.
[1] It was examined by Bruce M. Metzger and was the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University in 1942, "Studies in a Greek Gospel Lectionary (Greg.