The codex contains the text of the Gospels on 272 parchment leaves, with some lacunae. Other lacunae were supplied on coarse cotton paper by a rude and later hand, perhaps from 14th or 15th century. According to Scrivener the supplied texts were very carelessly written. The text is written in one column per page, 21-24 lines per page. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons. The capital letters and Ammonian Section numbers are in red, references to the Eusebian Canons in blue or green. It contains tables of the κεφαλαια before three of the Gospels, lectionary markings at the margin, versification, and pictures. It is beautifully written but tampered by a later hand. There is no iota subscriptum, but iota adscriptum occurs 21 times. In Luke 19:39 and Luke 22:70 occurs grammar form ειπαν. Fragments supplied by a later hand contain more itacisms than the manuscript itself. It has N ephelkystikon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it belongs to the textual cluster 475. In Luke 19-20 it has very good text, very close to the codex Sangallensis, and other old Uncials. It has some rare readings in Matthew 1:20; 27:33; Mark 10:17; 15:7; Luke 1:34; 14:12.22.27; 15:7; 16:2; 18:6.39; 19:2.46; 20:3.4.12.24.25.28.31.38.47; 21:22.27; 22:17.46.47.56.68; 23:27.38.53; John 6:58.70; 10:23.
History
dated the manuscript to the 13th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 11th century. The manuscript was once in Constantinople. It was brought from the East to England by Carlyle, professor of Arabic, from Syria, along with the manuscripts 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 488. The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory. Scrivener collated and published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list ofNew Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883. It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace in London.
