 Provenance received its most pointed expression in the "Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives," a Dutch text published in 1898 and written by three Dutch archivists, Samuel Muller, Johan Feith, and Robert Fruin.This text provided the first description of the principle of provenance and argued that "original order" is an essential trait of archival arrangement and description.Complementing the work of the Dutch archivists and supporting the concept of provenance were the historians of the era.