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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law. There are four copies of the original and, until now, there were believed to be only six copies of the ...

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 ...

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 ...