Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

A “copy” of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School was, in fact, an extraordinarily rare original from 1300. Credit... Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

Harvard Law School's document labeled as an unofficial copy since 1946 is actually an original Magna Carta from 1300. Professors David Carpenter and Nicholas Vincent confirmed its authenticity through ...

Vincent and Carpenter’s next puzzle was to work out how Harvard came to possess an original Magna Carta. They traced its provenance, beginning with the $27.50 paid in 1946 to Sweet & Maxwell, ...

A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued.. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor ...

Harvard’s stained copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimates. In 2007, an original 1297 version of the document was sold at auction in New York City for $21.3 million.

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law, and it has formed the basis of constitutions globally.

What was believed to be a copy of the Magna Carta at Harvard Law School's library is, in fact, a rare original from 1300. Lorin Granger/Associated Press ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s valuation, the historic document described as “somewhat rubbed and ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...