The Magna Carta
Subtitle: Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 7:00 PM.
Contributors: Sotheby's (Firm)
Series: Sotheby's -- no. 8461
Publisher: Sotheby's, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Sotheby's (Firm) -- Catalogs.; Magna Carta -- Catalogs.; Manuscripts -- England -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Magna Carta. English & Latin.
Notes: Catalog for auction held at Sotheby's in New York on December 18, 2007 at 7 pm.
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. The Magna Carta : Introduction ; Description of the document ; The Brudenells of Deene and their Magna Carta ; Magna Carta: the road to Runnymede ; Magna Carta 1215 ; The charter in the thirteenth century ; The crisis of 1297: No taxation without representation. The Magna Carta of 1297 : Text and translation ; The dissemination of the 1297 charter ; The script and the scribe ; The seal; value: Pt. 2. The archival and documentary evidences for Magna Carta : A census of Magna Carta manuscripts ; Related texts; value: Pt. 3. Magna Carta and modern history : Magna Carta and America. Magna Carta leaves England, 1939-2007 : How Magna Carta came to America but did not stay, 1939-1947 ; How Magna Carta came to Australia, 1952-3 ; How America saved Magna Carta from becoming a "centerpiece," 1975-2007.