The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, on 240 parchment leaves (24.5 cm by 18 cm), in two columns per page, 28 lines per page.[1][4] The manuscript contains weekday Gospel lessons.[1]
The manuscript is bound in red velvet, and according to Scrivener in excellent preservation.[3]
The manuscript was written in Constantinople.[4] The name of scribe was Nikolaos.[3]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 185e) and Gregory (number 280e). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
The manuscript is not cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).[5]
The codex is housed at the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini (G') in Venice.[1][2]
^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), pp. XXVIII, XXX.