in Antiquity, a kind of white tablet 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.

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

ALBUM is also used, in later times, to denote a kind of tablet, or pocket-book, for containing autographs, sketches, and original compositions.