Every item of data recorded (a certain style of decoration or binding, the date of a manuscript note, etc.) is treated as a valuable clue for provenance, therefore it can be geographically located and chronologically dated. This enables to track the movement of books across Europe and through the centuries.
Provenance nameRawlinson, Richard (1690-1755), 1690 - 1755 nonjuring bishop; made numerous donations in his lifetime and bequeathed to the Bodleian Library his manuscripts and those printed books which contained manuscript notes; Rawlinson's books include some owned by Thomas Hearne, who bequeathed all his manuscripts and printed books with manuscript notes to William Bedford, from whose widow Rawlinson bought them; see Macray 231-51, Stanley Gillam, `Thomas Hearne's Library', BLR 12 (1985), 52-64, at 60-1; William Younger Fletcher, `The Rawlinsons and their Collections', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 5 (1899), 67-86; Georgian Rawlinson Tashjian, David R. Tashjian, and Brian J. Enright, Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentenary Memorial (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1990); DNB; B. J. Enright `Rawlinson and the Chandlers', BLR 4 (1953), 216-17, repr. with modifications in Tashjian, Tashjian, and Enright, 121-32; idem, `Richard Rawlinson Collector, Antiquary, and Topographer', unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1956; idem, `“I Collect and I Preserve”: Richard Rawlinson 1690-1755 and Eighteenth-century Book Collecting. Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVIII', Book Collector, 39 (1990), 27-54, repr. in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of `The Book Collector' (London, 2003), 205-23; Robert A. Shaddy, `Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book- collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 288-96; SC III 177-8.
Provenance nameRawlinson, Richard (1690-1755), 1690 - 1755 nonjuring bishop; made numerous donations in his lifetime and bequeathed to the Bodleian Library his manuscripts and those printed books which contained manuscript notes; Rawlinson's books include some owned by Thomas Hearne, who bequeathed all his manuscripts and printed books with manuscript notes to William Bedford, from whose widow Rawlinson bought them; see Macray 231-51, Stanley Gillam, `Thomas Hearne's Library', BLR 12 (1985), 52-64, at 60-1; William Younger Fletcher, `The Rawlinsons and their Collections', Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 5 (1899), 67-86; Georgian Rawlinson Tashjian, David R. Tashjian, and Brian J. Enright, Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentenary Memorial (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1990); DNB; B. J. Enright `Rawlinson and the Chandlers', BLR 4 (1953), 216-17, repr. with modifications in Tashjian, Tashjian, and Enright, 121-32; idem, `Richard Rawlinson Collector, Antiquary, and Topographer', unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1956; idem, `“I Collect and I Preserve”: Richard Rawlinson 1690-1755 and Eighteenth-century Book Collecting. Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVIII', Book Collector, 39 (1990), 27-54, repr. in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of `The Book Collector' (London, 2003), 205-23; Robert A. Shaddy, `Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book- collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 288-96; SC III 177-8.