A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly ...

Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta ...

The Magna Carta was originally signed in 1215 by King John of England and is a hugely significant constitutional document.

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s ...

In the 40s, Harvard purchased a faded, stained copy of the Magna Carta for $US27. But in a startling discovery, two British ...

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

The Magna Carta was a landmark legal document responsible for shifting the balance of power away from the kings who had spent ...

Imagine you bring along to the Antiques Roadshow a scuffed piece of parchment covered in writing in Latin so faded that you ...

British academics have identified a document in Harvard Law School's library as an original version of Magna Carta from 1300.

Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta revealed as an original, the school bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book ...

Harvard Law School Library bought what it thought was a stained and faded copy of the document from London book dealers Sweet ...