The University has announced that Harvard has been announced as a unofficial copy of the unofficial 80 years as the original issued by 1300 Edward I as an unofficial copy. The discovery means that there are now seven surviving copies of the first document to effectively prove that no English king was above the law.
According to EmbroideryThe discovery was made by King’s College London by Professor David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history, who examined a 1327 document through the Harvard Law School Online Library. “I was roaming all these online constitutional books trying to find the unofficial copies of Magna Carta,” he said, adding that he immediately thought “: My God is confirmed by Edward I, in search of the world, in 1300, though, of course, it is evident that it is a cheating.”
In collaboration with Nicholas Vincent, a medieval history professor at the University of East Angle,, Carpenter tested the authenticity of this document, in addition to other tools, in addition to the Varnagram imaging and Ultra Violet Light. Key, Vincent told EmbroideryHandwriting was in: “An extraordinary detail about handwriting is the initial E -Edward at the beginning of Edward. Edward’s next letter – D – is also a capital, which is absolutely unusual.
Magna Carta worked as a royal charter of rights, and for the first time, King Jan issued a group of rebel barns in 1215 to reconcile. The original charter failed to persuade the uprising, and England sank into civil war. But its principles were at least tolerated in a few repetitions: illegal arrests and confiscation of property, sharp, judicial process, and a tax lease, was eventually re -issued after the charter after the law.
The carpenter described Harvard’s copy as “one of the most valuable documents in the world”.
He added: “It emphasizes a basic principle that the ruler is subject to the law. He cannot just say: ‘In jail, from your head, I am occupying your property.” If he wants to work against you, he has to do so through the legal process.
Harvard’s Online Library notes that this document in 1946. 27.50 was purchased and earlier a member of the Royal Air Force (RAF) sold London book dealers Sweet and Maxwell for £ 42. The Carpenter and Vincent said the copy was probably released to the former parliamentary bourgeois of Applebia in Cambria, and in the 18th century, an elderly family reached the lower, who then transferred it to an end to Thomas Clarkson. From there, through Clarkson State, it was obtained by the Forestar Minard.
Vincent said: “After that, it passed through a bad elite, a bad elite of the 18th century, who then gave it to Thomas Clarkson, who was a well -known expert in the end of slavery. And then, through the property of Clarkson, it was a fellow of the warrior, the first commander of the warrior.
It is unclear why Harvard’s copy was classified unofficial in almost a century. “Everyone was tired in 1945,” said Vincent.
