The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew 26:20-39, on 2 parchment leaves (size 20.5 cm by 13.7 cm),[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[3][6]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but no a references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]
It contains a lectionary markings at the margin and Prolegomena to the Gospel of Mark.[5]
Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 13th or 14th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]
The manuscript belonged to Tischendorf (along with Minuscule 674). It was bought after his death, in 1876.[6] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[6] It was examined by Hort and Brandshaw.[5]
^Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 195.
^ abcdAland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 87. ISBN3-11-011986-2.