excerpta

[ ik-surp-tuh ]

/ ɪkˈsɜrp tə /

short selections or pieces of writing, especially summary statements or parts of a longer work.

Origin of excerpta

1630–40; < Latin, noun use of neuter plural past participle of excerpere. See excerpt

The 'Excerpta' have been made by some later hand—perhaps that of a monk in the Vivarian convent.

The Letters of Cassiodorus |Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
The work from which these 'Excerpta' are taken was composed, according to Usener, in the year 522.

The Letters of Cassiodorus |Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
M. Ihm, who faithfully reprinted the excerpta in the Archiv f. lat.

Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome |Apicius
Schuch incorporated the excerpta with his Apicius, placing the formulæ in what he believed to be the proper order.

Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome |Apicius

It is furthermore interesting to note that the excerpta, too, are silent about Cœlius.

Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome |Apicius