Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...

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

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 ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since ...

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it ...

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

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

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University as a cheap, water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, “one of the world ...