sylloge

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭ'ləjē, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪləd͡ʒi/

Noun

sylloge (plural sylloges)

1. A collection or compendium, especially of coins or antiquarian objects.
   • 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^[1], page 149:

     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.

   • 2014, Evelyn Karet, The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy‎^[2], page 109:

     Ciriaco's epigraphic collections on paper, known as sylloges, are his most famous contribution.

2. A summary or digest of such a collection.
   • 1999, Stephen Album, Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Museum‎^[3], Volume 10: Arabia and East Africa:
   • 2010, Robert Irwin, editor, The New Cambridge History of Islam‎^[4], Volume 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century:

     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.

Related terms

• syllogist

Translations

collection or compendium

summary or digest of a collection or compendium

Anagrams

• gleysol