Preferred label

Plighted                

Alternative label

Scope note

A style of letterlocking referred to directly by Elizabeth I, but unattested. She requested that a letter be refolded “in a small plight like those of her own hand, and so sealed” (Sir Thomas Lake to Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury, 28 January 1596, Hatfield, Cecil Papers,  vol. 6, p. 31 entry 67).         

Parent concept

Pleated        

uh-linked-data/concept/381        

Related concept                                                     

Distinctive letterlocking style        

uh-linked-data/concept/104

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/382