The codex contains the text of the New Testament without Book of Revelation, on 280 parchment leaves (size 22.2 cm by 18.3 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[3][4]
The leaves of the codex are arranged in octavo.[5]
According to Hermann von Soden it is an ornamented manuscript.[2] It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning and pictures. It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion.[5]
According to the colophon it was written in 1133. Currently the manuscript is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 13th century.[4] It was written by scribe named Theoklistus.[5] The codex 927 was seen by Gregory at the Dionysiou monastery (8), in Mount Athos.[5] 279 folios of the manuscript are housed at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Ludw. II 4) Malibu, California, and one folio is housed at the Paul Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens.[3][4] The leaf from Athens used to be cataloged as minuscule 2618.[3]
^ abSoden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 107.
^Aland, B.; Aland, K.; Karavidopoulos, J.; Martini, C. M.; Metzger, B.; Wikgren, A. (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 18*. ISBN978-3-438-05110-3.
^Nestle, Eberhard; Nestle, Erwin; Aland, B.; Aland, K.; Karavidopoulos, J.; Martini, C. M.; Metzger, B. M. (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN978-3-438-05100-4.
^J.K. Elliott (1989). A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts. Cambridge University Press. p. 125. ISBN0-521-35479-X.