The text is written in dark brown ink. The letters, upright and squarish, hang from the line, and are not infrequently joined. Breathings are square and there are a few uncial forms and very few contractions apart from nomina sacra. By a different hand lection signs, headings, and lesser initials are in red (in the latter two classes overlaid with gilt); the letters are less frequently joined, breathings are occasionally rounded and there are more uncial forms and many, chiefly standard, contractions.

Decoration consists of: (i) П-shaped titles with 'Blütenblatt' filling at the beginning of gospels in the synaxarion (folios 110, 211; one on folio 40 verso has been cut out, others lost); (ii) rectangular frames with 'Blütenblatt' filling at the beginnings of months in the menologion; (iii) Greek crosses in a rectangular frame at the beginning of the morning lessons; (iv) foliate initials at the beginning of most lessons. The Greek crosses are in gilt, blue and white. The other decorations are in red, gilt, blue, green, yellow, and white.

There are deleted inscriptions on folio 308 verso in a (?)fifteenth-century hand: at the top - μνισθητη κ(υρι) ε την ψυχην τον δουλον σου μηχαηλ [ / κετησ̣ηνμ̣υ̣ . . . αυτουσρηνα ̣τιησ . . ταρσεν.[ / κ(υριο)ς . ι̣η̣τρτην ο . υτον; at the foot - μνησθητη κ(υρι) ε την ψυχην του δουλου σου . λρητ . . δρ . . [ / . . οροτου . . . . . . . . . . . ο . . . . τ . . ο[ / .σ. αυ . .

In the above transcriptions each dot stands for a single indecipherable character. The spaces accompanying these dots do not necessarily indicate spaces between words.