[2][4] There are four decorated head-pieces and ornamental initial letters in colour and gold, one at the beginning of each Gospel.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

Aland placed it in Category V.[5] It is a member of the textual family E (Soden's Ki).

In 1674 the archbishop of Proconesus presented this manuscript to John Covel (1637–1722), British chaplain in Constantinople, and in 1677 Covel brought it from Sinai to England along with minuscule 110.

[4] It is currently housed at the British Library as a part of the Harleian Collection (Harley MS 5776).