Eight hundred and ten years ago, almost to the day, an English king agreed to a seminal document laying down principles that would help establish the foundations of modern democracies. The Magna Carta ...

On this day in 2015, a unique 1216 edition of the Magna Carta went on display in the North-East for the first time in its 799-year history.

Professor Painter observed that if President Trump “is angry that he can’t impose tariffs (i.e. taxes) without consent of the legislature, instead of blaming Leonard Leo, he should blame the drafters ...

In contrast, a Magna Carta sold by Sotheby’s in New York in 2007 fetched over $21 million. Professor Carpenter, working alongside Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, explained the ...

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, purchased by Harvard Law School in 1946, has been authenticated. (Lorin Granger, Harvard Law School) Previously, only six originals of the document were known to exist.

725-year-old Magna Carta found after 80 years at Harvard, bought for $27 as a fake Historians used spectral imaging to authenticate the document, now recognized as one of only seven surviving copies.

The Harvard Law School library bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. It's now likely worth millions of dollars.

Harvard’s $27.50 ‘copy’ of Magna Carta revealed to be original worth millions “You and I both know what this is!” By Nathan Metcalf Globe Correspondent,Updated May 15, 2025, 6:56 p.m.

Harvard’s stained copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimates. In 2007, an original 1297 version of the document was sold at auction in New York City for $21.3 million.

It turns out the university’s Magna Carta “copy” is actually one of now seven original manuscripts penned in 1300. Researchers reviewed the document using multispectral imaging and UV light ...

They also did a detailed check of the actual text. Because the wording of Magna Carta evolved over the years, the words and their order needed to be identical to that found in the other 1300 originals ...