1. Provenance Evidence in
the Fellows’ Library
EMMA JONES

2. Jesus College Fellows’ Library
©Archimage

3. The Big Five
Powell Mansell Cherbury
Jenkins Edwards
Cherbury image ©NPG; Edwards image Wikipedia; others ©Jesus College, Oxford

4. Catalogues

5. Archives
Eighteenth-century
Benefactors’ Book
Mansell’s Assignment of Books
to the College, 1646
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6. Books
G.4.14 (Powell)
K.4.19 (Powell)
G.16.10 (Mansell)
B.10.17[1]
(Edwards)
N.1.4 (Edwards; Wood’s motto)

7. P.7.19 Gall. (Jenkins)
H.15.15 (Herbert;
Donne’s signature)
L.1.23 Gall. (Herbert)
P.5.1 Gall. (Herbert)
L.4.17 Gall.
(Herbert)

8. K.9.22 (Edwards)
L.4.14 Gall. (Jenkins)
0.15.2 (Jenkins)
P.7.19 Gall. (Jenkins)

9. No marks
C.5.8 Gall (Powell)

10. M.12.8 (Edwards)
Disposing of the evidence

11. Whose line is it anyway?
I Arch 3.29 (Powell)

13. Other Provenance Projects
British Armorial Bindings database
David Pearson’s ‘English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century’ list
Penn Provenance Project Flickr account
Medieval Fragments Project Flickr account
University of Princeton Notabilia blog
University of Michigan Adversaria blog

14. Email: emma.jones@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Twitter: @FoxingClever