Letterlocking: Phil Warwick’s cut-triangle wrapped locked letter to Sir John Bankes, England (1638) (UH0074) from jana jana series hot Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Phil Warwick’s letter to Sir John Bankes (8 June 1638), Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS Bankes 65/1 fols. 44/45.nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnWarwick or his letterlocker had to perform a series of folds to plan where to create the attached lock used to lock this variation. The bifolium was folded in half, short edge to short edge twice, and then unfolded. The bifolium
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