In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and ...

Harvard University purchased what it thought was a cheap replica of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50 — but it turns out the ...

According to a statement released by the school, the Harvard Law School Library dished out $27.50 for the document identified ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly ...

Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of ...

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law. It formed the basis of ...

British academics who identified the faded manuscript as an original hailed it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents ...

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

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.

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University for less than $30 as a water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, an ...