The codex contains text of the four Gospels, Acts and epistles on 300 parchment leaves, with some lacunae (Matthew 14:15-15:30; 20:14-21:37; Mark 12:3-13:4).
The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
[3][4] The manuscript was written on the order of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1260-1282), and was presented to the king of France Louis IX in 1269 or 1270.
[5] Wettstein rightly judged that it was used by Robert Estienne in his Editio Regia as θ'.
[5] It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin Gr.