Using the study of comparative writings styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 12th century.
[3] It contains Gospel introductions (known as prolegomena), a synaxaria (list of weekly readings in the Church's calendar, the Epistle to Carpian, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, pictures, the Menologion (list of Saint Feast days), and lectionary markings in the margin.
[3] According to biblical scholar and textual critic Constantin von Tischendorf, the text of the manuscript is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but with some Alexandrian readings.
[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it textual cluster along with the manuscripts 267, 1651, and 1654.
The codex is currently located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr.