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<provenance>

provenance

contains any descriptive or other information concerning a single identifiable episode during the history of a manuscript, manuscript part, or other object after its creation but before its acquisition.

Module msdescriptionmshy

Attributes

Classes and content

May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

msdescription

Example

<provenance>Listed as the property of Lawrence Sterne in 1788.</provenance>
<provenance>Sold at Sothebys in 1899.</provenance>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
  </content>