Resumen de Provenienzprinzip und archivisches Denken: von der ursprünglichen Ordnung zur Geschichtlichkeit von Überlieferung

Philipp Messner

• The following paper discusses the ‘principle of provenance’ as a fundamental concept of archival theory and practice. Whereas traditional archival practice follows an understanding of provenance as singular in origin, current discussions in the field of archival science open up this specific notion of provenance towards more complex forms of contextuality.