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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 ...
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 for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...
Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta revealed as an original, the school bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book ...
The Harvard Magna Carta is thought to have been issued to the former parliamentary borough of Appleby in Westmorland, England ...
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it ...
The Magna Carta was originally signed in 1215 by King John of England and is a hugely significant constitutional document.
A manuscript purchased by Harvard University as a cheap, water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, “one of the world ...
An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since ...
British academics have identified a document in Harvard Law School's library as an original version of Magna Carta from 1300.
The Magna Carta was a landmark legal document responsible for shifting the balance of power away from the kings who had spent ...