compilations

My copy just arrived and it has to be one of the best step-by-step and recipe compilations available.

A slim volume contained all that could be derived from references in the Old Testament and the compilations of classical writers.

Second, brief compilations of precepts, like the works of Hefez ben Yazliah and the responsa of some geonim.

They are not dry-as-dust compilations of statistics, but full of interesting matter and delightfully well written.

They were either compilations from older books or direct translations from the Arabic.

But Bede possessed nothing which we have lost; and his compilations are consequently altogether unprofitable.