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The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles (He, 1 Tim), and the Book of Revelation, on 123 parchment leaves (size {{×|26.5|18.6}}), with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 37 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}

It contains prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each book, many lists, numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters) in the margin (sometimes), and the Comma Johanneum (added on the margin by a later hand).

It was assigned the number 88 by Caspar René Gregory.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 271

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/mode/2up

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The section 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is placed after 1 Corinthians 14:40, which is its location in manuscripts of the Western text-type (Claromontanus, Augiensis, Boernerianus, it^ar,e), and one manuscript of the Vulgate (Codex Reginensis).NA26, p. 466.{{Cite book | author = Bruce M. Metzger | author-link = Bruce M. Metzger | title = A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament | publisher = Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft | location = Stuttgart | year = 2001 | pages = 499–500}}

The Greek text of the codex Aland placed in Category III.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = 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

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = 129

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC

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

According to F. H. A. Scrivener it is close textually to 63, 72, 80.{{r|Scrivener}}

It contains, in the margin, the text of Acts 8:37.UBS3, p. 448

In Acts 27:39 it reads εκσωσαι for εξοσαι along with B*, C, cop^{sa, bo}, arm.The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. 524.

In Romans 8:1 it reads Ιησου κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν αλλα κατα πνευμα, for Ιησου. The reading of the manuscript is supported by third corrector of Sinaiticus (א^c), D^c, K, P, 33, 104, 181, 326, 330, (436 omit μη), 456, 614, 630, 1241, 1877, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect.UBS3, p. 548.

In 1 Corinthians 2:1 it reads μυστηριον along with 𝔓⁴⁶, א, Α, C, 436, it^a,r, syr^p, cop^bo. Other manuscripts read μαρτυριον or σωτηριον.UBS3, p. 581.

In 1 Timothy 3:16 it reads ο θεος for ος.The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. 724.

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος καὶ αἵματος (through water and spirit and blood) together with the manuscripts: Codex Porphyrianus, 81, 442, 630, 915, 2492, arm, eth.UBS3, p. 823.For another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John. Bart D. Ehrman identified it as Orthodox corrupt reading.Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60. It contains the Comma Johanneum added by a later hand on the margin.Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (Oxford 2005), p. 147.

The manuscript was written by Evagrius and compared with Pamphilus copy at Caesarea.{{r|Scrivener}} It was examined by Joachim Camerarius (in 1574), Birch, Scholz, Dean Burgon, Ernst von Dobschütz.Ernst von Dobschütz, "A hitherto unpublished Prologue to the Acts of the Apostles", AJT 2 (Baltimore, 1898), pp. 353–387. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.{{r|Gregory}}

Formerly it was labelled by 83^a, 93^p, and 99^r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 88 to it.{{r|Gregory1908}}

It is currently housed in at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Ms. II. A.7), at Naples.{{r|Aland}}{{Cite web |url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste/?ObjID=30088 |title= Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=2022-02-15 |location=Münster}}

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• Ernst von Dobschütz, "A hitherto unpublished Prologue to the Acts of the Apostles", AJT 2 (Baltimore, 1898), pp. 353–387.
• H. S. Murphy, "On the Text of Codices H and 93", JBL 78 (Philadelphia, 1959), pp. 228–237.

• Philip B. Payne, [http://www.linguistsoftware.com/Payne1998NTSMS88.pdf MS. 88 as Evidence for a Text without 1 Cor 14.34-5], New Testament Studies, vol 44 (1998), pp. 152–158.

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