sylloge

Noun

sylloge (plural sylloges)

1. A collection or compendium, especially of coins or antiquarian objects.
   • Milred's Sylloge might have included some of the poems of the so-called Alcuiniana (A and B):⁶⁷ Milred himself might even have taken a copy of his sylloge to Germany, where Alcuin and other Carolingian poets later used it as a model.2001, Patrizia Lendinara, “Gregory and Damasus: two Popes and Anglo-Saxon England”, in Rolf Hendrik Bremmer, Cornelis Dekker, David Frame Johnson, editors, Rome and the North: The Early Reception of...
   • Ciriaco's epigraphic collections on paper, known as sylloges, are his most famous contribution.2014, Evelyn Karet, The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy, page 109
2. A summary or digest of such a collection.
   • Another major development is the publication of sylloges. A sylloge presents images and descriptions of all the coins of a certain collection, subject to defined parameters of mint and time, and is usually organised by mint series.2010, Robert Irwin, editor, The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century