Unlocking History Number (UH#)
UH0217
Original
Jacques Sennacques’s virtually unfolded letter to his cousin Pierre le Pers, France (1697) in the Brienne Collection, Sound & Vision The Hague, DB-1627
Model and research notes
MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 21–24.
Letterlocking Unique Video Number(s) (LUV #s) & Instructional video(s) URL
LUV217 https://youtu.be/kP4Z3YOIgRk
Instructional video info transcription
Forthcoming
Letterlocking category Number (LC #)
LC05L (unopened)
Letterlocking format Number (LF #)
4RW
Security score
Low
Assessment of Confidence in assigning LC#
Attested (virtually)
Substrate
Paper
Dimensions
Opened (in mm): H: c. 200mm x W: c. 267mm
Letterpacket (in mm): H: 60mm x W: 107mm
Manifestation
Unopened (virtually opened)
Distinctive letterlocking style(s)
Triangle inside
Unopened
Virtual unlocking
Locking Mechanism
Closure flap
Security enhancements
Letterlocking category formula (shorthand)
LC5
Fold + Adhere
(F + A)
Letterlocking manipulation sequence (shorthand)
Forthcoming
Locking instructions
Forthcoming
Images
Images: View: address side; reverse side
Images: Download: address side; reverse side
03 Brienne Collection letterlocking data: Images folder 09/16, DB-1564_02–DB-1658_01, Harvard Dataverse https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2CPWNS
Foldable(s)
Foldable_for_DB1627_screenreader.pdf
Step-by-steps
Forthcoming
Substrate map
Forthcoming
Virtual unfolding results
Virtual unfolding code
"virtual unfolding" computational pipeline
Manipulations
Writing: NA
Postal: "10" chalk postage on address panel
Opening: NA
Filing (Storage, Display): NA
Repair: NA
Damage
Wormholes
Features
Dirt on panels/ in crease
Transcription and translation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgNbxtvqqrLo2zDcKnrzzhFLRt7Fm_QX8oM01b4b5uQ/edit?tab=t.0
Article(s)
2023. Daniel Starza Smith & Jana Dambrogio. Letterlocking: securing correspondence before envelopes in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Lauren Shohet, subject editor.
2019. “Letters”, with Elizabethanne Boran & Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig with Rebekah Ahrendt, Nadine Akkerman, Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, & David van der Linden. in Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age, ed. by Howard Hotson & Thomas Wallnig, (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press). 63–67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1146
Book
Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.
Further resources
Jacques Sennacques letter to Pierre le Pers, catalog entry, Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO), Bodleian Library, Brienne Collection
Citation for the letter(s)
UH0217
Original
Jacques Sennaques to Pierre Le Pers, France (1697) in the Brienne Collection, Sound and Vision The Hague, DB-1627
Model
MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 21–24.
Video
UH217
Amanda Ghassaei, Holly Jackson, Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, the Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered team, and the Unlocking History Research Group. “Brienne Postal Archive: Jacques Sennacques’s virtually unfolded letter to his cousin Pierre le Pers, France (1697)." Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History number 0217/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 0217. Filmed: 30 July 2021. Duration: 1:34. Posted: 2 March 2022. URL: Accessed: March 4, 2025.