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Harvard Bought This Stained Copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It Turned Out to Be an Original

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...
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Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it

It wasn't exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was searching through the ...
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Harvard Law School bought a copy of Magna Carta for $27. Turns out, it’s actually an original

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 were able ...
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Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in... Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In ...