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ALBUM (Lat. albus, white)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBUM (See also:Lat. albus, See also:white) , in See also:ancient See also:Rome, a See also:board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts and other public notices were inscribed in See also:black. The Annales Maximi of the See also:Pontifex See also:Maximus, the See also:annual edicts of the See also:praetor, the lists of See also:Roman and municipal senators (decuriones) and jurors (album indicum) were exhibited in this manner. In See also:medieval and See also:modern times album denotes a See also:book of See also:blank pages in which verses, See also:autographs, sketches, photographs and the like are collected. It is also applied to the See also:official See also:list of matriculated students in a university, and to the See also:roll in which a See also:bishop inscribes the names of his See also:clergy. In See also:law, the word is the See also:equivalent of mailles blanches, for See also:rent paid in See also:silver (" white ") See also:money.

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