Ff. A-E (at the beginning), 1-250 and 254-258 are vellum. (There are two leaves numbered 189.) Ff. 251-253 are paper leaves supplied in the 17th century. The original ms. is written in a medium-sized calligraphic upright archaizing minuscule. One of the so-called Palaeologina group of mss. written in Constantinople in the last quarter of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. There are 4 full-page miniatures of the evangelists, on leaves attached on guards before the beginning of each gospel. The first page of text for each gospel has an illuminated headpiece and illuminated initial letter. Bound in Greek red morocco over thick wooden boards, blind-stamped on front and back, with two clasps now missing. In a tray case, 25 cm. C. R. Gregory (signature with "Leipzig 4 Dezember 1888" on front flyleaf). Purchased with the Constantius fund, 1889.
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