Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 287 parchment leaves (24 cm by 18.6 cm) with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 30 lines per page. There are three ornamental initials and four ornamental head-pieces (leaves 11, 51, 77, 117). It contains 10 pictures, four of them are given on full page, they are portraits of the Evangelists (folios 10v, 76v, 116v, 116v); portrait of John the Evangelist with the pupil St Prokhor. The head-piece to the Gospel of John contains the incorporated medallion bearing a half-length image of Jesus Christ. The initial letter epsilon at the beginning of John contains a figure of John the Evangelist.
There is no sign of interrogative, the nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated forms, the errors of itacism are frequent (e.g. παραδειγματησαι).
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena of Cosmas, the Eusebian Canon tables with an ornamental frames, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospels, and the Euthalian Apparatus to the Pauline epistles.
The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.
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