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The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the complete text of the four Gospels, written on 225 parchment leaves, sized . The text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page. It was written in neat, and regular letters. The first three pages are written in gold ink, with "exquisite miniatures", four on page two, four on page three. The text is divided according to the chapters (known as / kephalai), whose numbers are given in the margin, with their titles (known as / titloi) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons which are written below Ammonian Section numbers (both early divisions of the Gospels into sections). The copyist has included what is known as the 'iota adscriptum' to the main text. It contains Prolegomena (introductions), Epistle to Carpainus, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of contents (also known as ) before each Gospel, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), and pictures. It also contains liturgical books with hagiographies: the synaxarion and Menologion (lists of Saint's days and lives). == Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Textual critic Hermann von Soden classified it to A (the Byzantine commentated text). Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textaul data), it belongs to the textual family K in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. In the margin of Mark 16:8 it has a scholion which questions the authenticity of the remains verses of the Gospel: (It certain copies, the Gospel is present up to here. But in many others, also these [verses] are included). The text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 is omitted. == History ==

The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. It was brought to Paris by Catherine de' Medici. It was in private hands, and became one of the manuscripts used by Ludolph Kuster in his revised reprint of John Mill's Novum Testamentum Graecum (Paris 8). Biblical scholar Johann M. A. Scholz examined a bigger part of Matthew, Mark and John in the codex. It was examined and described by biblical scholars Dean Burgon and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884. Scholz dated it to the 10th-century, Gregory to the 12th-century. It is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th-century. The codex is presently located at the National Library of France (shelf number Gr. 64) in Paris. == See also ==