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Prof. Dr. A. W. BYVANCK
BURGGRAVENLAAN 24
LEIDEN 
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April 4th 1952

Dear Sir

I carefully studied the manuscripts in the catalogue of the Arenberg Collection you was so good to send me and the photo's you send me as well.

The most interesting manuscript that can be considered as North-Netherlandish is certainly Nr. 79 that has been bought by the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Nr. 21 has been written for a house of the Brigittine order. As Saint Anne has a so prominent position it must have been the monastery Rosmalen, named Annenberg near Bois-le-Duc. It is the first illuminated manuscript of the province of Noord-Brabant  I know of.

Nr. 26 and 28 are by an artist who worked in Holland whose best know work is a book of hours in Venice, dated 1490. One of the arms reproduced in the catalogue is from the well-known family of Duivenvoorde, belonging to the nobility of Holland. Several manuscripts illustrated by this masters are in our libraries.