Although it is of a late date, its text is remarkable from the point of view of textual criticism.

[2] According to biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener, it is in fact 83 leaves of vellum and 130 of paper.

[4]: XIV The headings of the Gospels are titled as ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ Μάρκον etc., something also seen in Minuscule 178.

[6] There are numerous marginal notes written by a beautiful hand, who wrote words Ειμι Ιλερμου Χαρκου (I am William Chark) at the top of the first page.

[4]: XI The name Ἰησοῦς (Jesus) is always written in full up to John 21:15, where we meet with the nomen sacrum ις, and in 41 other places, 19 of which are in Acts.

[2] The nomina sacra (an early Christian method of designating important names/words) are contracted in a usual way: δαδ (δαυιδ / David), ις (Ιησους / Jesus), κς (κυριος / Lord), ουνος (ουρανος / Heaven), ανος (ανθρωπος / man), χς (χριστος / Christ), ιηλ (Ισραηλ / Israel), ιλημ (Ἱεροσόλυμα / Jerusalem), σηρ (σωτηρ / saviour), πηρ (πατηρ / father), μηρ (μητηρ / mother), πνα (πνευμα / spirit), στρος (σταυρος / cross), and παρνος (παρθενος / virgin).

[4]: X The text of the codex is very remarkable; it belongs to Family 13 as a very important member of the group.

[2] The Greek text of the Gospels of this codex is considered to be a representative of the Caesarean text-type.

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

[9]: 205–230  Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript text classification system.

[10]: 129, 336  In the Book of Revelation its text belongs to the Byzantine text-type, but with a large number of unique textual variants, in close relationship to Uncial 046 and Minuscule 61, which appears to have been copied from it.

[2] It once belonged to Richard Brinkley (or Brinkeley), who probably got it from Covenant of Grey Friars at Cambridge (like Codex Montfortianus).

[2] Then it belonged to William Chark (or Charc), mentioned in marginal notes of Codex Montfortianus.

[6] Then it belonged to Thomas Hayne, who in 1641 gave this codex with his other books to the Leicester Library.

Another collation was made by John Jackson and William Tiffin, and it was lent to Wettstein through César de Missy.

Scrivener collated it again in 1855 and published his results, with a full description in the Appendix to his "Codex Augiensis".