@ARTICLE{Sychta_Stefania_The_2016, author={Sychta, Stefania}, volume={vol. 33}, journal={Libri Gedanenses}, pages={97-124}, howpublished={online}, year={2016}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska}, abstract={The bibliography includes printed matriculation albums of universities, registers of members of student fraternities and nationalities preserved in the holdings of the PAS Gdańsk Library. The matriculation albums are a valuable source of information in biographic, genealogical, cultural and social research. Due to their merits as important scientific tools they were edited and published as early as in the 19th century. The bibliography includes sources dated 1289–1944 from 59 towns and 14 European countries (listed in the article under the modern country names), the oldest of which is matriculation record of the University in Bologna, the last one is a list of Polish students of the Medical Department at University in Königsberg. The items in the catalogue are arranged according to the names of the mentioned towns (in the Polish version). Within the category of the towns the author enumerates the matriculation albums, registers of nationalities and student fraternities, as well as other kinds of records, all arranged in alphabetical order. The sources that were impossible to be allocated to any of the above mentioned groups were placed in the appendix.}, type={Bibliografia / Bibliography}, title={The University Matriculation Albums in the holdings of PAS Gdansk Library. Bibliography}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/123913/PDF/6_LG%2033%20(2016)_Sychta.pdf}, keywords={matriculation albums, university registers, Gdańsk Library, bibliographies}, }