The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the text of the four Gospels on 405 parchment leaves (17.6 by 19.2 cm), with some missing portions (Matthew 20:18-26, 21:45-22:9, Luke 10:36-11:2, 18:25-37, 20:24-26, John 11:26-48, 13:2-23, 17:1-12).

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

[6] The Caesarean text-type however (initially identified by biblical scholar Burnett Hillman Streeter) has been contested by several text-critics, such as Kurt and Barbara Aland.

[7]: 55–56  Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript classification system.

"[7]: 335 In the Gospel of Mark, this manuscript is closely aligned to Codex Koridethi (Θ).

[8] According to Aland, the quality of the text is higher in the Gospel of Mark, however lower in Matthew and Luke.

[10] In John 1:29 it lacks ο Ιωαννης, a reading supported by the manuscripts א‎ A B K M N S U Y Δ Θ Π Ψ Ω 047 0141 8 9 1192.