Manuscript Level:  Provenance

Definition:  Names of the successive owners, private and institutional.

Comment:  If possible, give dates (enclosing them in round parentheses), call numbers (always include the Phillipps number), nature of evidence; separate information about successive owners with semicolons; in the case of documents, omit as redundant the names of persons given in the Docket field (even though some of them presumably were also owners of the document). Auction and dealer information hasn't been cited systematically in DS, but if it's possible to include it, please do so.

Example:

• Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 16365.
• Cistercian abbey of St. Mary at Holme Cultram.
• G. (s. XIX?).
• Minutoli-Tegrimi family.
• Arms of a cardinal Albani.
• Motto, "Souveingne vous."

Properties:  Data type: Memo (changed 2009-05-04 for vers. 9.0.2; previously: Data type: text. Field size: 255 characters).

Required?:  No.