ff.604; 237 x 175mm; text size 175 x 127mm; two columns of 48 lines on vellum, bound in wooden boards covered with tooled leather, with a crucifix inside a sun on the front cover.
Collation: 1(12) wants 2, 2-5(12), 6(14), f.61 is on a strip 30cm wide, blank except for a short note, wants 14, probably blank, 7-51(12), ff.468 recto, 490 recto + 502 recto blank, 52(2) + 1 (f.602 pasted to f.599); 53(2), blank in a rougher vellum. The vellum is ruled horizontally by hard point, with borders in orange. The writing is a very small neat bolorgir (round hand). Red ink is used for running titles, purple and blue for simple initials and marginalia with purple and blank ink being used for ornate initials, usually in bird or fish shapes, double vertical lines framing columns on each side, decorative motifs in margins (arabesques, flowers, animals and buildings), and a tapestry motif at the beginning of a new section, usually accompanied by an arabesque motif on the outer margin often on top of a column.
The text is liberally ornamented with patterns, birds, fish, animals, buildings, gates and saints.
The initial letter of each Gospel is in the shape of the appropriate symbol for each evangelist, with the rest of the first line in capital bird letters.
The order of books follows the usual pattern with the addition of summaries preceding Genesis, Exodus, Ezra, and introductions to Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Isaiah, the twelve Prophets, each Gospel and generally to the Pauline Epistles.
The preface to Job is by Jovian Episcopus, and those to Acts, the Catholic epistles and the Pauline epistles are by Euthalius. The New Testament is preceded by eight pages (ff.463 verso-467 recto) containing the Ammonian Canon Tables, but the text of the concordance is incomplete.
The pseudepigraphical Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is included between Deuteronomy and Joshua, and Psalm 151 is present. Philemon has a colophon by Euthalius stating that this copy was compared with that of Pamphilus, in the Library of Caesarea. Throughout the manuscript the variant Vulgate readings are indicated in the margins.
The manuscript has no principal colophon, but several brief notices (ff.89 recto, 202 verso, 315 verso) identify the scribe as Astuatsatour.
A black and white photograph of ff.496 verso-497 recto appears between pp.30 & 31 in the printed catalogue ("Historical Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Bible House Library", Falivene & Jesson, BFBS: 1982).