Harvard Law School’s ‘cheap copy’ of Magna Carta was shown to be an original - Harvard Law School/Lorin Granger A copy of Magna Carta bought by Harvard University for just $27 in the 1940s is an ...
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. By Stephen Castle Reporting from ...
A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor David ...