The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 225 parchment leaves (size 21 cm by 15.5 cm), with one lacuna at the end.[3] The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.[3][4]
The text of John 19:21–21:25 was supplied by a later hand.[5]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last numbered section in 16:12). The numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the left margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given without a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections).
It contains subscriptions at the end of each Gospel and versification. There are blank spaces for pictures.[5][6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster 827 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is a perfect member of the family.[7]
The cluster has following profile:[10]
Luke 1: (4), 5, (6), 9, 28, 33, 34, (36), 37, 53.
Luke 10: 15, 19, 48, 51, 55, 57, 58, 62.
Luke 20: 1, (9), 21, 33, 42, 43, 48, 55, 65, 74.
The cluster 827 consisting of manuscripts 827, 1050, 1446, 1457, 1593, and 2766. Minuscule 827 is the lead manuscript of the cluster.[10]
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century,[5] other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]
The manuscript was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882.[11] The manuscript was collated by F. G. Carver in 1958.[12]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (625)[6] and Gregory (827e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]
^Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 154.
^Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 135.
