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The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels.{{r|Aland}} It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: synaxarion and Menologion.{{r|Gregory}}

The biblical text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page.{{r|Aland|INTF}} It was written in neat, and regular letters.{{r|Scrivener}}

The first three pages are written in gold, with exquisite miniatures, four on page 2, four on page 3.{{r|Scrivener}}

It has iota adscriptum.{{r|Gregory}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains Prolegomena, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), and pictures.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 132

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n145/mode/2up

| isbn = }}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.{{Cite book | author = K.v. Tischendorf | url = https://archive.org/stream/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog#page/n220/mode/2up | title = Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima | location = Lipsiae | year = 1859 | page = CXCVI}} Hermann von Soden classified it to A^k (the Byzantine commentated text). Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| authorlink2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138]

| doi =

| id =

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| author-link =

| title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1982

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53 53]

| doi =

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53

}}

At the margin of Mark 16:8 it has questionable scholion: εν τισι των αντιγραφων, εως ωδε πληρουται ο ευαγγελιστης εν πολλοις δε, και ταυτα φερεται.{{r|Gregory}}

The text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 is omitted.{{r|Gregory}}

Scholz dated it to the 10th-century, Gregory to the 12th-century.{{r|Gregory}} Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 12th-century.{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | accessdate = 2014-01-31 | location = Münster | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180220015104/http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | archive-date = 2018-02-20 | url-status = dead }}

The manuscript was brought to Paris by Catherine de' Medici.{{r|Gregory}} It was in private hands, and became one of the manuscripts used by Kuster's in his revised reprint of Mill's Novum Testamentum Graecum (Paris 8).{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

| author2 = E. Miller

| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 193

| url =

| isbn = }}

Scholz examined a bigger part of Matthew, Mark and John in the codex. It was examined and described by Burgon and Paulin Martin.{{Cite book | author = Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin | author-link = Paulin Martin | title = Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris | location = Paris | year = 1883 | pages = 26–28}} C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.{{r|Gregory}}

The codex is located now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 64) in Paris.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

• List of New Testament minuscules
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| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 132

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n145/mode/2up

| isbn = }}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections