in antiquity, a kind of white table, or register, wherein the names of certain magistrates, public transactions, &c. were entered. Of these there were various sorts; as the album decurionum, album senatorum, album judicum, album praetoris, &c.

Album Decurionum, was the register wherein the names of the decuriones were entered. This is otherwise called matriculatio decurionum.

Album Senatorum, the list of senators' names, which was first introduced by Augustus, and renewed yearly.

Album Judicum, that wherein the names of the persons of those decuriae who judged at certain times, were entered.

Album Praetoris, that wherein the formulae of all actions, and the names of such judges as the praetor had chosen to decide causes, were written.

The high-priest entered the chief transactions of each year into an album, or table, which was hung up in his house for the public use.

Album is also used, in later times, to denote a kind of table, or pocket-book, wherein the men of letters with whom a person has conversed, inscribe their names with some sentence or motto. — The famous Algernon Sydney being in Denmark, was by the university of Copenhagen presented with their album, whereupon he wrote these words:

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

Album Graecum, among physicians, the white dung of dogs, formerly prescribed for inflammations of the throat, &c. but now justly despised.