The phrase "a compendium of an" is not correct in written English as it is incomplete and awkwardly structured.
It can be used when referring to a collection or summary of information, but it needs to be followed by a noun that specifies what the compendium is about.
Example: "The book serves as a compendium of an extensive range of historical events."
Alternatives: "a collection of" or "a summary of".
And the show's panoramic centerpiece, "Live and Let Live," is a compendium of a dozen such images.
Why then during the last six months have new tomes been published devoted to the hatred of Jews? "A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad" (Random House) weighs in at about 1,200 pages, a compendium of a career's research by Robert S. Wistrich, professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew University in Israel.
It's a compendium of a lot of his graffiti work — outdoor anarchist work — with some commentary about what the pieces mean and how they ended up where they ended up and whether people painted them out or someone put a velvet rope around them to protect them.
The apparent changes of direction noted in Section 5 will be taken either as stages in Boethius's re-education or as unintended effects of the author's wish to make this work into a compendium of a syncretistic philosophical system, and Philosophy's own view that she has resolved the problem of prescience will be accepted as that of Boethius the author.
He was the first classical author to write a doxography, a compendium of a variety of intellectual views.
This response is expressed as a compendium of a variety of different clinical signs and symptoms such as fever, increased blood leukocyte counts, unexplained thrombocytopenia, mental confusion, transient hypotension, and organ stress and dysfunction.
He said that "Zot!" takes place on an alternative earth which "is a compendium of all the futures predicted in our past".
That will frequently yield a compendium of links, including an "all about" link for resorts.
