[2][3] It was one of the manuscripts used by biblical scholar Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.

It was formerly known (and is perhaps better known) as Codex Corsendocensis, because it was previously kept (and possibly written) at the Augustinian monastery at Corsendonck, near Turnhout, Belgium, midway between Antwerp and Eindhoven.

It uses iota adscript (the addition of the smallest Greek letter at the end of certain words to indicate a diphthong which is now no longer pronounced).

There are also references to the Eusebian Canons (another early division of the Gospels into sections, and where they overlap).

[4] It contains the Letter to Carpian, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia) before each book, Prolegomena, pictures (in John with Prochorus), and the Euthalian Apparatus to the Acts and General epistles (an early division of the rest of the books, similar to the Ammonian Sections).

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

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

[4] The historian Radulph or Roland de Rivo presented this manuscript to the monastery of the Virgin Mary in the village Corsendonck near Turnhout.