Harvard found that “copy” was original from the Magna letter purchased for $ 150

According to New Research, the “copy” of The Magna letter decades ago was bought by Harvard Law School decades ago. 27.50 (about 6 156 at the current price) is now very rare original.

British historians were able to verify the true validity of the document while researching Harvard Law School Online.

“I am working at home … I am looking for the unauthorized copy of Magna Carta and found a lot of them,” said Kings College London Professor David Carpenter CNN Mark the moment of innovation.

“I finally arrived at Harvard’s Law School Manuscript Number 172. I clicked on it. I was waiting to see the book of an inscription. And I saw it … it was 1300 from the letter,” said the carpenter.

The academic, who was shocked by his discovery, said he had contacted Nicholas Vincent, a medieval history professor and Magna letter specialist at the University of East.

“I, ‘I think?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I think it is a lot’, ”the carpenter recalled.

A. Magna Carta (Great letter) is often considered the first The statement of human rightsIn English law is credited to purify man’s rights. According to the United Kingdom Parliament website, the letter was “the first to write the principle that the king and his government were not beyond the law.

Today, it is respected worldwide, including everyone – including the Emperor – a document establishing the principle subject to the rule of law.

“He (the king)” he cut his head to jail. I couldn’t say that I was confiscating his property. “

Academics believe that Harvard Document is one of the seven copies of Magna Carta’s 1300 edition Ray Eduardo i It is still surviving.

Amanda Watson, Assistant Director of Librarian Services at Harvard Law School, congratulated the British academics for “excellent innovation”. The new research is “an example of what is happening when the excellent collections like Harvard La Library are open to intelligent scholars.”

The Harvard Law Library bought the document at the Sweet & Maxwell London Bookers auction in 1946, according to its acquisition record. The auction list manuscript was “copying… in 1327… a slightly diminished and moisture”, a press release told the Discovery.

London’s book vendors had only a short time, which was bought from the World War I Menard Vice Marechal, which was inherited by two important activists against the slave trade.

“The source of this document is very awesome,” Vincent said in a press release. “If you look at the meaning of constitutional tradition in America and current issues on freedom, you cannot find the excellent source than this.”

Many exposure signs initially denied the authenticity of the document, the carpenter said, including the handwriting style and the first line at the beginning of the first line, including “Edwardus”.

The dimensions of 48.9 cm are also in accordance with the six -known six -known dimensions of 47.3 cm. Subsequently, ultraviolet images and other images provided by Harvard Law School have been used to “mix” with other original ones, the carpenter said.

Two academics are expected to visit Harvard in June for a ceremony that identifies the invention of the medieval document. After that, the carpenter believes that he will be revealed as jewelery to the public “one of the Harvard collection”.

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