Matriculation Register of the Rectorate of the University of Basel, Volume 3 (1654-1764)
A manuscript matriculation register kept by the rectorate of the University of Basel, Volume 3 covering 1654 to 1764, recording students enrolled at the university and preserved by the e-codices virtual manuscript library of Switzerland. The pages are hand-painted in a Baroque manner, with each opening framed by ornate cartouches, heraldic shields and portrait medallions of matriculating scholars, offering a designer dense examples of decorative scrollwork, painted borders and emblematic symbolism from seventeenth-century academic record-keeping.
