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What is a compend?

What is a compend? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
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So far as I am aware, there is no compend of information on the subject in any language so trustworthy and so judicious as this.
And Alcuin proceeded to furnish him with a compend of the scientia bene dicendi, which is Rhetoric.
Peter Lombard, somewhat their junior, presents its compend of accepted and partly digested theology.
As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines.
The author preferred to publish the entire compend than merely a part of it.
An epitome, compend, or compendium is a condensed view of a subject, whether derived from a previous publication or not.

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