Preferred label

Secretary hand (techniques)          

Alternative label

Secretary handwriting; Secretary; Secretary script

Scope note

A style of handwriting used for writing English, Gaelic, German, and Welsh in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and which partly developed as a response to the increased use of letters. 

Parent concept   

Writing manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/596       

Related concept                     

Scribe        

uh-linked-data/concept/449

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/464