ALBUM, in ancient Rome, a board chalked or painted white, on which public notices were in scribed in black. The Annales Maximi of the Pontif ex Maximus, the annual edicts of the praetor, the lists of senators and jurors, the Acta Diurna, etc., were ex hibited in this manner. In mod ern times album denotes a book of blank pages in which auto graphs, sketches, or the like, are collected. It is also applied to the official list of matriculated students in a university, and to the roll in which a bishop inscribes the names of his clergy. In law, the word is the equivalent of mailles blanches, for rent paid in silver ("white") money.