Epitome
Epitome , noun
[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} a surface incision, also, and abridgment, from {not transcribed} to cut into, cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: compare French épitome. See Tome.]
1.
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
2.
A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
An epitome of English fashionable life.
A man so various that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome.