Unlocking History number (UH#)

UH0074



Original

A letter from Phil Warwick To Sir John Bankes 



Model and research notes

MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box ##.



Letterlocking Unique Video number(s) (LUV #s) & Instructional video(s) URL

LUV0074 https://youtu.be/53H93G5pRxU 



Instructional video info transcription

Forthcoming



Letterlocking Category number (LC #)

LC29L



Letterlocking Format number (LF #)

4RW



Security score

Low



Assessment of Confidence in assigning LC#

Attested



Substrate

Paper



Dimensions

Forthcoming




Manifestation

Opened



Distinctive letterlocking style(s)

Cut into lock-SA triangle wrap



Locking mechanism

Lock



Security enhancements

Authenticated exposed seal    



Letterlocking category formula (shorthand)

LC29 

Fold + Adhere + Lock-SA

(F + A + LSA)



Letterlocking manipulation sequence (shorthand)

Forthcoming



Locking instructions

Forthcoming



Images 

Forthcoming




Foldable(s)

Forthcoming



Step-by-steps 

Forthcoming



Substrate map

Forthcoming



Virtual unfolding results

NA



Manipulations

Writing: Margin folds

Postal: NA

Opening: Tears

Filing (Storage, Display): NA, hinged with adhesive into a letterbook

Repair: NA



Damage

Tears



Features

Dirt on panels/ in crease

Radiating wrinkles

Wrinkles



Article(s)

2023. Daniel Starza Smith & Jana Dambrogio. Letterlocking: securing correspondence before envelopes in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Lauren Shohet, subject editor. 



Book 

Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.



Citation for the letter(s)

UH0074

Original 

Phil Warwick to Sir John Bankes (June 8, 1638). Bodleian Libraries, MS Bankes 65/1 fols. 44/45.



Model

MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 26.



Video

LUV074 

Jana Dambrogio and the Unlocking History Research Group, “Phil Warwick’s cut-triangle attached locked letter to Sir John Bankes, England (8 June 1638).” Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History number 0074/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 0074. Filmed: September 2016. Duration: 3:21. Posted: October 2016.  URL: https://youtu.be/53H93G5pRxU. Accessed March 4, 2025.






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