ff.352; 195 x 140mm; text size 130 x 85mm; two columns of 20 lines on vellum bound in wooden boards covered with brown tooled leather, originally having three clasps fastening from back to front covers.
Collation: 1(12) wants 1, missing, and 5 cut out, 2-29(12), 30(8). Ruled in pencil and with thread markers sewn to the outer margins of twelve ff. Initials executed in red ink and marginal floral and bird motifs in blue and purple inks. ff.1 verso-2 recto are framed for the Letter of Eusebius to Carpianos but the text has not been written in; ff.3 verso-4 recto, 5 verso-6 recto, 7 verso-8 recto and 9 verso-10 recto are framed with gate and pillar motifs (not complete) and with bird and flower motifs all generally executed in blue green and purple. ff.2 verso-3 recto, 4 verso-5 recto, 6 recto-7 recto, 8 verso-9 recto are all blank. Portraits of the four Evangelists precede their respective Gospels and decorated half headpiece frames with full length marginal decoration begin each Gospel.
The principal colophon states that this Ms was copied in Constantinople in the Armenian era 4, (i.e. 555 A.D.) but this is a rasure of another number and the actual date is 1600-1650. The scribe is not names in the colophon.