Provenience n. Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; used esp. in the fine arts and in archaeology; as, the provenience of a patera.
... story is reprinted by Weltrich, I, p. 183 ff., who attempts to trace its provenience. It was not entirely fiction. Cf. Minor, I, 298, to whom this chapter is indebted in ... — The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
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