An issue of the Magna Carta, which was wrongly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s, has been identified as original. Harvard Law School Library bought what it thought was a stained and faded copy of ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

Today, it is worth millions of dollars. The Magna Carta, originally signed in 1215 by King John of England, is widely regarded as the foundation of constitutional governance and the rule of law.

Carpenter told The Guardian: “I was trawling through all these online statute books trying to find unofficial copies of the Magna Carta and I immediately thought: my god this looks for all the ...

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians ...

Drafted in 1215 by the Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of King John, the Magna Carta was intended to make peace with rebel barons and is credited with laying the foundations of many ...

An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified. Harvard Law School Library in America ...

An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified. Harvard Law School Library in America ...