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

Lorin Granger, Harvard Law SchoolHarvard's law school library bought this document in 1946 for $27.50, thinking it was a copy ...

For decades, Harvard Law School has had a copy of the Magna Carta in its library. Recently, pair of historians discovered ...

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

BOSTON, MA – Imagine stumbling upon a forgotten treasure in your attic, only to discover it’s a priceless artifact. That’s ...

Harvard Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two British academics say ...

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law. It formed the basis of ...

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

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

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

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

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