Well, heavens to Betsy, as our American friends say, just LOOK what someone acquired at an auction and dismissed as a not-very-good copy! (see https://tinyurl.com/2xy5k3xw) It never ceases to amaze me the astonishing treasures that turn up, having lain undiscovered or been there in plain sight and not been recognised.
This time it’s the Magna Carta! Yes, really. And it’s one of only seven of the reissue by Edward I in 1300. I quote: “….Bought at auction and long dismissed as an unremarkable copy, a document in Harvard Law School’s archives has been dramatically reclassified as an extraordinarily rare original of the 1300 reissue of Magna Carta. The discovery was made after historians used a mix of imaging technology and scholarly sleuthing to verify its authenticity….”
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