A bound set of works meant to be met together. The ordering is part of the making.
Latin album (a white board, a blank tablet for public notices), neuter of albus (white); the sense of a book of blank pages to be filled travelled through 17th-century friendship-books to collections of photographs and recordings, an ordering that is itself part of the making.
A bound set of works meant to be met together, its ordering part of the making.