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Boston – Harvard University for decades assumes he had a cheap copy Magna Carta In his collection, the colored and faded document bought it for less than $ 30.

But two researchers concluded that there was something much more valuable – a rare version from 1300 issued by the British King Edward I.

Original Magna Carta Founded 1215. The principle that is a king is subject to the law, and the basis of the constitution on a global scale. There are four copies of the original and so far it has been believed that only six copies of the version 1300 are.

“My reaction was one of the astonishment and, in a way, awe that I managed to find the previously unknown Magna Carta,” David Carpenter, a medieval history professor at King’s College London. He searched the Harvard Legal School Law School in December 2023. When he found a digitized document.

“First, I found one of the most drooping documents and the most significant documents in the world constitution,” says the carpenter. “But secondly, of course, it was angering that Harvard sat on it all these years, without realizing what it is.”

The carpenter associated with Nicholas Vincent, a professor of the medieval history of the University of East Anglia, to confirm the authenticity of Harvard’s document.

Comparing it from the other six copies from 1300., the carpenter found dimensions matching. He and Vincent then turned to the pictures of Harvard librarians created using ultraviolet light and spectral shooting. Technology helps scholars see details about faded documents that are not visible to the human eye.

This allowed them to compare the words of words for the word, as well as the manuscript, which include great capital “e” at the beginning in “Edwardus” and the elongated letters in the first row.

After 1215 original printed by Kralj John, five other releases were written in the next decades – until 1300., the final document executed and approved the king’s seal.

1300 Magna Cart version “differs from previous versions throughout a number of small ways and changes are in each only,” Carpenter said.

Harvard had to introduce her to a tall bar to prove authenticity, the carpenter said, and he did “with flying colors.”

His tatterd and faded a copy of Magna Carta is worth a million dollars, the carpenters is estimated – although Harvard has no plans for sale. Magna Carta version from 1297. sold at auction in 2007. year by $ 21.3 million.

The second mystery behind the document was the path that was necessary to Harvard.

That task is left to Vincent, who could find it until each time in the former Appleby Parliamentary County in Westmorland in England.

Harvard Legal School Library bought their copy in 1946. years from the London Book Trader for $ 27.50. At that time, he had been wrongly dating as if 1327 were made. Years.

Vincent was determined by the 1945 document. Year sent to the British Auction house in 1945. World War I Fly ACE who also played the role that defended Malta in World War II. The warter, forster Maynard, inherited the archives from Thomas and John Clarkson, who are the leading campaigns against the slave trade. One of them, Thomas Clarkson, became friends with William Howver, hereditary master of Appleby Castle, and he possibly gave him Clarkson.

“There is a chain of relationship, as it was a smoking gun, but there is no clear evidence that this is Appleby Magna Carta. But it seems very likely to me,” Vincent said. He said he wanted to find a letter or other documentation depicting Magna Carta was given to Thomas Clarkson.

Vincent and the carpenter plan to visit Harvard in June to see his Magna Carta first hand – and say that the document is as relevant as always at the time when Harvard clashes with Trump Administration Based on how many authorities, the Federal Government should have to have over their leadership, reception and campus activism.

“It just appears at Harvard at the time Harvard is under attack as a private institution by the state authority that seems to say Harvard what to do,” Vincent said.

Is also an opportunity for a new generation to learn about Magna Cartawhich played a part in the establishment of the United States – from the Declaration of Independence to the adoption of the Law on Rights. Seventeen countries have installed aspects into their laws.

“We mean the libraries of the law as places where people can come and understand the substrate of democracy,” said Amanda Watson, Assistant Dean for Libraries and Information Services in the Faculty of Law and Information Faculties. “Think that Magna Carta could inspire new generations people to think about some freedom and what it means and what means self-government is very exciting.”