sylloge

plural sylloges

1. A collection or compendium, especially of coins or antiquarian objects.

   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

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   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 Gregory the Great in Germanic Europe, page 149

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