sylloge

/ˈsɪləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συλλογή (sullogḗ), from συλλέγω (sullégō, “collect”).

Why this word is great

SYLLOGE — [Noun] A collection or compendium, especially of coins or antiquarian objects, or a summary of such a collection. From Ancient Greek συλλογή (sullogḗ, "collection"), from συλλέγω (sullégō, "to collect"). Unlike "digest" (which distills) or "anthology" (which curates), a sylloge is an act of preservation—an assembly of fragments deemed worthy of survival. It is the numismatist’s tray of Roman denarii, each coin a frozen moment of empire; the archaeologist’s ledger of pottery shards cross-referenced by stratum; the scholar’s folio of medieval seals pressed in wax. To compile a sylloge is to resist oblivion, one carefully annotated object at a time.

noun

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.”
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.”