Description
The codex contains a complete text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 294 parchment leaves (19 cm by 14 cm) with only one lacunae. It is written in one column per page, in 28-30 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 Sections, the last in 16:19), without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, pictures, lectionary equipment at the margin, Prolegomena to Catholic and Pauline epistles, and subscriptions in Paul. The Synaxarion, Menologion were added by a later hand.
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.
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