provenance

1. Place or source of origin. (countable, uncountable) · Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
2. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below. (countable, uncountable) · This spear is of Viking provenance.
3. The history of ownership of a work of art. (countable, uncountable) · The picture is of royal provenance.
4. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance). (countable, uncountable)
5. The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance). (countable, uncountable)
6. Background; history; place of origin. (countable, uncountable)

Plural provenances