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The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the New Testament Gospels on 113 parchment leaves (sized ), with many missing sections. The text is written in one column per page, with 23 lines per page. ; Contents : John 1:1-9:5 (missing 9:6-21:25) : Matthew 10:37-42; 11:1-18; 12:11-14:25 (missing 1:1-10:36; 11:19-12:10; 14:26-28:20) : Mark 1:40-16:20 : Luke 1:1-24:53 The text is divided according to the chapters (known as / kephalaia), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles (known as / titloi) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but without reference to the Eusebian Canons (both early divisons of the Gospels into sections.). As the beiginning of all the other Gospels are missing, only one table of contents (also known as ) is present before the Gospel of Luke. Verse totals were added by a later hand. == Text ==

The Greek text is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. Category V manuscripts are described as "manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text." According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it has a mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-type, and creates a pair with minuscule 1013. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted. == History ==

The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by biblical scholar Johann M. A. Scholz (1794–1852). Scholz described it in Biblisch-kritische Reise (p. 135). Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw it in 1886. It was dated to the 11th or 12th century. It is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (shelf number Ms. II. A. 3) in Naples. == See also ==