The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 276 thick parchment leaves with some lacunaeat the beginning and end. It has no covers. The manuscript has survived in bad condition and many of its leaves were misplaced in binding. The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is no a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections; it was not prepared for liturgical reading. It contains tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, and portrait of the John Evangelist before the Gospel of John. The other portraits probably were cut out. There are the decorated head-pieces at the beginning of each Gospel. The list of the κεφαλαια to Matthew is not complete, it begins with the 52nd κεφαλαιον. The list of the κεφαλαια are complete before the other Gospels. The portrait of Saint John is defaced. The nomina sacra are contracted in a usual way. ; Errors There are no signs of iota adscript or iota subscript. N εφελκυστικον is met with 63 times. There are 21 omissions by homoioteleuton. Errors of iotacism are 387, some of them were corrected by a later hand. Scrivener enumerated all errors of the first hand: η for ι, ι for η, ε for αι, αι for ε, η for ει, ει for η, ι for ει, ει for ι, ω for ο, ο for ω, η for ε, ε for η, η for υ ; υ for η, besides ημεις and υμεις interchanged 24 times; ω for ου, ου for ω ; η for οι ; οι for η ; οι for υ ; ι for υ ; ει for υ ; οι for ι. The augmentum is omitted five times. It reads μελλει for μελει twice; always κυλος. The only Alexandrian forms are τριχαν in Matthew 5:36; καθηκουν in Luke 5:19; ουτω is found 13 times.
The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century. The early history of the manuscript is unknown. In 1864, the manuscript was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts. They were transported to England in 1870–1871. The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate, in London. In 1922 it was acquired for the University of Michigan. It is currently housed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883. It was examined by Dean Burgon, who described it in his The Revision Revised. Scrivener examined and collated its text. His collation was edited posthumously in 1893.
