Preferred label

Placeholder              

Alternative label

Hypothetical letterlocking category; Placeholder letterlocking category; Placeholder category; Placeholder categories  

Scope note

A letterlocking category for which there are no known extant historical examples. Labelled as “Placeholder” in the Categories and Formats chart.     

Parent concept

Letterlocking category       

uh-linked-data/concept/225        

Related concept                                                     

Extant       

uh-linked-data/concept/134

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

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

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/379