[3][5] It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena, tables of the Eusebian Canons, lists of the κεφαλαια (lists of contents) before every Gospel, "hypothesis" – explanatory of using of the Eusebian Canons (only in Matthew), and pictures of the four Evangelists, of the Saviour, and of the Virgin and Child.

Iota adscript occurs 17 times up to Luke 1:77, then ceases, but iota subscript first in Luke 1:77 (in the same hand and on same page as the last adscriptum) thence found 85 times, mostly with article after the proposition εν.

[4] The Greek text of the codex is mixed with a predominant element of the Byzantine text-type.

According to Hermann von Soden it belongs to Ir, the most diluted form of the Iota text-type, along with codices 262, 1187, 1666, and 1573.

According to the colophon the manuscript was written by Theodoros, a scribe, in the year of the world 6938, meaning A.D.

[4] The colophon states: Παρ εμοι του ευτελους και αβρωτιμου παντων μεροπων και χωρικου γραφεως θεοδορου του κοτζα εκ χωρας μετωνης τελειωτεν εν ετει συστασεως κοσμου ς λη.

Η. Απο δε της ενσαρκου οικονομιας αυλ μηνι μαιω λα.

It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,[10] together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532-546).

[2] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (558) and C. R. Gregory (545).