“A copy” of the Magna message purchased decades by Harvard’s Law Faculty for only $ 27.50 (about $ 156 at the current price) is now recognized as a very rare original of 1,300, according to a new research.
British historians managed to verify the true originality of the document after an academic faced the element while researching Harvard University Law online.
“I was only working at home … I am looking for unofficial copies of Magna Carta and I find many of them,” said David Carptter, a medieval professor at King’s College London. CNN Remember the moment of discovery.
“I finally arrived at the Harvard Faculty of Law Manuscript No. 172, I click it, waiting to see the Basic System Book. What I saw … was original from the 1300 letter.”
The academic shocked him, the academic said that he quickly contacted Nicholas Vincent, a professor of medieval history at East Anglia and also Magna Message Specialist.
I said, “Is this what I think? “Yes, I think it’s too.”
A Magna Carta (Wonderful message) is often considered the first Declaration of Human RightsThanks to the perpetuation of human rights in English law. According to the UK Parliament website, the message was the first to “put a written book that the king and his government were not above the law.”
Today, reverence is carried out around the world as a document that has established the principle that everyone – including the monarch – is subject to the rule of law.
“The king could not say simply,” his head beheaded to prison, I issued his property. “
Academics believe that Harvard’s document is one of the only seven versions of Magna Carta Do I am Eduardo I am That is still alive.
Amanda Watson, Assistant Director of Library Services at Harvard Law Faculty of Law, congratulated the work of British academics on their “wonderful discovery”. She added that the new research “embodies what is happening when they are great groups, such as the Harvard Law Library, open to great scientists.”
Harvard University Library bought the law based in 1946 at the Sweet & Maxwell London Bookiers, according to the acquisition registry. The auction catalog described the manuscript as “a copy … in the year 1327 … a little worn and moisture.”
Booknitors in London had only for a short period, after they bought him from Marechal of AR Maynard, a pilot in World War, and they inherited it from important activists against the slave trade.
“The origin of this document is simply great,” Vincent said in the press statement. “Given his whereabouts, given the current problems in freedoms, the meaning of constitutional traditions in America, you cannot invent more origin than this.”
Carptter said that many of the signs that initially revealed the authenticity of the document, including the manual writing style and the large “e” at the beginning of the first line – which means “Edwardus”.
The dimensions of 48.9 centimeters were 47.3 centimeters also consistent with those in the previously known origin. Next, UV images and other images presented by Harvard’s Law Faculty were used to “integrate” the text of the new document with other original copies, Carbnter said.
Harvard academics are expected to visit in June to celebrate, which will represent the discovery of the Middle Ages document. After that, Carptter believes that he will be exposed to the public as “one of the Harvard” jewelry.
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