Letterlocking: Catherine de' Medici’s spiral-locked letter to either Charles IX or Henry III, Europe (1500s) (UH0043) from hot bl Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Catherine de’ Medici's letter to either Charles IX or Henry III (1500s) Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am 1304. nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnBased on the narrow loss of paper in the blank margin of the letter substrate and the slits along the perimeter of the long edges of the bifolium, the Unlocking History Research Group proposes two locking variations Catherine de’
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