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

Harvard University purchased what it thought was a cheap replica of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50 — but it turns out the ...

British academics who identified the faded manuscript as an original hailed it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents ...

The library of Harvard Law School bought a tattered document for $27.50 back in 1946, and records described it as […] ...

Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It's been hiding ...

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University for less than $30 as a water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, an ...

Harvard had an Antiques Roadshow moment when a professor discovered that an original copy of the Magna Carta was worth ...

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

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

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

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

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