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

In the 40s, Harvard purchased a faded, stained copy of the Magna Carta for $US27. But in a startling discovery, two British researchers have confirmed it is a rare original from 1300. Until now, there ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded it ...

“The text had to be correct.” 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 ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal ... This looks so much like a 1300 original,'" Carpenter said in the video. Carpenter said he reached out to Nicholas Vincent ...

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

The school had never questioned the document’s origins because it was told it was a copy when it purchased it, Zittrain said. The last time a Magna Carta was publicly sold was in 2007.

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

It was a reaffirmation of the original Magna Carta signed by King John and the last full issue of the document. In 1946, the Harvard Law School Library bought what it thought was a copy for US$27.50, ...

For 80 years, Harvard Law School believed the Magna Carta it bought for $27.50 was a reproduction. Now, British researchers think the document is a genuine version—one of a few still in existence.