The codex contains the text of the New Testament on 369 parchment leaves, with some lacunae. Four leaves are unfoliated on paper. The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Apocalypse. The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page. The text of Matthew 23:1–20 was supplied by a later hand. The headpieces in colour and gold, the large initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books, small initials in red and gold. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the left margin; the τιτλοι are given at the top or bottom of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings in the margin, and subscriptions at the end, Synaxarion, and Menologion. It contains many brief scholia on the margin made by prima manu. At the end on three leaves are unfinished επιγραμμα of Pseudo-Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre, on the Seventy disciples and the 12 Apostles. In the Pauline epistles occur iota adscriptum, and N ephelkystikon always with verbs is frequent; errors of itacismus occur 49 times: αι 5; ε 2; ι 5; ει 8; ει 5; η 3; ω 6; ο 9; ι 2; η 3; ε 1; υ 1. There are omissions by homoioteleuton in Philemon 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:4; 1 Timothy 1:9; 2 Timothy 4:11.
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 10th or 11th century, Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the British Library to the mid 10th century and by the INTF to the 11th century.. Probably it was written in Constantinople. 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, along with other Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. They were transported to England in 1871. Part of the manuscript was purchased by the British Museum, on 8 October 1938. The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate, in London. Scrivener examined and collated its text. His collation was edited posthumously in 1893. It was added to the list ofNew Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. It was examined and described by S. T. Bloomfield, Dean Burgon, Edward A. Guy. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883. Herman C. Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse. The manuscript is housed at the British Library, in two collections. 302 leaves are housed in the Additional Manuscripts and 67 leaves are housed in the Egerton collection.
