317 Provenance Note and Method of Acquisition

Mandatory	Repeatable	Editable
no	only one occurrence per ownership description	yes

Scope

General note on a specific ownership of the described copy.

Indicators

Indicator 1: # undefined (blank)
Indicator 2: # undefined (blank)

Subfields

$6 (M;NR) Evidence Sequence Indicator
$a (M;NR) Note
$9 (O;NR) Method of Acquisition

Input Conventions

The evidence sequence indicator in $6 groups all chunks of information that describe the evidence for a specific ownership. All fields with an identical subfield $6 within a record describe the same ownership.

The method of acquisition is indicated by a single character code in subfield $9:
- a purchase
- b donation
- c bequest
- d exchange
- e institutional transfer
- # unknown