This register of the “Alte Universität” (old university)
founded in Basel in 1460 and located at the Rheinsprung, the
“lower” college, contains numerous regulations (administrative,
financial, legal and moral in nature) as well as a list of those
who, in the years 1541-1626, endured the Depositio rudimentorum, an
archaic and rather cruel rite of initiation as condition for
official matriculation.