Prof Vincent said Harvard’s Magna Carta is the 25th known surviving Magna Carta original. “The comparison I would draw is the rarest painter known to everybody is [Johannes] Vermeer,” said ...

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original ...

Prof Vincent said Harvard’s Magna Carta is the 25th known surviving Magna Carta original. “The comparison I would draw is the rarest painter known to everybody is Vermeer,” said Prof Vincent.

It was a key document in the drawing up of the US declaration of independence and constitution. King Edward I then issued a final version of the Magna Carta with minor changes, also known as the ...

By comparison, a Magna Carta dated from 1297, that was sold at auction in 2007, fetched more than $21 million dollars at Sotheby’s in New York. The copy is now thought to be worth millions of ...

Prof Vincent said Harvard’s Magna Carta is the 25th known surviving Magna Carta original. “The comparison I would draw is the rarest painter known to everybody is Vermeer,” said Prof Vincent.

Magna Carta ‘copy’ bought for $27.50 now believed to be genuine. ... “The comparison I would draw is the rarest painter known to everybody is [Johannes] Vermeer,” said Prof Vincent.

An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified. Harvard Law School Library in ...

The Magna Carta is seen as a precursor of democracy and the basis of legal systems across the world, ... It was a key document in the drawing up of the US Declaration of Independence and constitution.