Palaeography is important in this analysis, however, dating and provenancing of text may not reveal any information about its carrier due to trade, although a manuscript dated to the 11th century CE or earlier could not have been produced in Europe.
Again, this raises questions about the provenance of the text.
Burkert later reaffirmed this position, although with a little less confidence, asserting that the Aristotelian provenance of the text is "as obvious as it is unprovable" (1998, 315).
The preface begins with an important statement of the provenance of the text, and is the source for the title Theology of Aristotle.
This is distinctive and if one accepts the early provenance of the text, charts a new course in the development of Chinese philosophy.
Much of "Licht" is derived from "The Urantia Book," an early-twentieth-century religious text of obscure provenance, in which Christ is described as an incarnation of the Archangel Michael.
Now the family of John and Anna Jaffe want it back – but the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds Chaux-de-Fonds, offerinsiststell the story of its provenance in a special gallery text on the will instead.
This tomb is best known for its two versions of the Daode jing, but it is meaningful to locate those texts among other texts of a scientific provenance found in the tomb (Harper 1998 and 2000, Ma Jixing 1992, Zhou Yimou 1994, Zhou Yimou and Xiao Zuotai 1987).
A list of names appearing in a text allows a guess about its provenance, domain and date - a task now approached algorithmically as "topic modeling".
Several of the 26 wooden texts are suspect due to uncertain provenance (X, Y, and Z), poor quality craftsmanship (F, K, V, W, Y, and Z), or to having been carved with a steel blade (K, V, and Y), and thus, although they may prove to be genuine, should not be trusted in initial attempts at decipherment.
