In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s valuation, the historic document described as “somewhat rubbed and ...

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 ...

An authentic Magna Carta sold in 2007 for $21.3 million. The Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in history and deeply influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.

A document bought for just $27.50 has turned out to be a rare and extremely valuable version of Magna Carta which was bought for less than $30 in 1946 -- and it's been sitting unnoticed in Harvard ...

What was thought to be a copy of the Magna Carta in Harvard's law school library has turned out to be real. Harvard purchased the document, which dates to the early 1300s, for $27.50 at an auction ...

Prof Vincent said Harvard's Magna Carta is the 25th known surviving Magna Carta original. "The comparison I would draw is the rarest painter known to everybody is Vermeer," said Prof Vincent. "There ...