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                  Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie | 
            
                  Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies | 
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                  a research centre of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature | 
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                  <origin> | 
            
| <origin> | Contains any descriptive or other information concerning the origin of a letter. | ||
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| Example | 
                            <origin> <p>draft of letter found, dated 17 August 1924</p> </origin>  | 
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| Note | 
                            
                      This element is reserved solely for the description of the origination process of the letter. It does not cover facts about its history before it entered the holding institution (see <provenance>), the acquisition process by which the letter entered the holding institution (see acquisition), or its history after it entered the holding institution (see <custodialHist>). The historical events should be listed in chronological order.  | 
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| Content | Must contain one or more paragraphs. | ||
| Parents | history | ||
| Children | p | ||
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT origin %om.RR; 
          (p+)> 
<!ATTLIST origin 
          %a.global;> | 
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| See further | 4.6. The history of the letter: <history> | ||
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