Harvard bought a Magna Carta copy for $27. It turned out to be an original from 1300.

A faded “copy” of the royal Magna Carta manuscript that Harvard University paid just $27.50 for is actually an ultra-rare original from the 14th century — likely worth nearly a million times ...

How did Harvard get an original Magna Carta? Harvard said in a release that Sweet & Maxwell, a legal books dealer, bought the copy at a Sotheby's auction on behalf of Air Vice-Marshal Forster ...

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 ...

It turns out the university’s Magna Carta “copy” is actually one of now seven original manuscripts penned in 1300.

The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the ...

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

What is the Magna Carta? 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.

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.

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 ...