Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been dated to the 13th century.
[3] The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) at the top of the pages.
[3] It contains introductions (known as prolegomena), the tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) are placed before each book; it contains synaxaria,[4] the Euthalian Apparatus, and ornamentations.
The subscriptions at the end of each book with the numbers of lines (known as στιχοι / stichoi) were added by a later hand.
In the Gospels and Acts it is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, close to the codex Minuscule 4.
In 27 editions of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, it is cited only twice (1 Cor 11:24; 15:6).