Daily Ancestormatricula
Matricula is Latin for a public register, list or roll; on a register book it simply means register.
Matricula is a late Latin word for a written list or register, a diminutive of matrix, list. Lewis and Short gives public register, list, roll.
On the cover or title page of a book of records it simply means register, and the words after it tell you what kind of events the book holds.
As seen in a recordTitle page of a Latin parish register, Bohemia, 1800s
Matricula baptizatorum parochiae Neudorf
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