Harvard Discovers Its $27 Purchase Is a a Rare Magna Carta Original

What has been a yellowed copy in the Harvard Library for decades turns out to be an original copy of the Magna Charter from 1300 – making it one of the most important documents in the history of the Constitution. Harvard once bought it for 27 dollars.

Harvard Bought a $27.50 'Copy' of Magna Carta That Turned Out To Be a Genuine Manuscript of the "Most Famous Single Document in the History of the World"

An 800-year-old document once dismissed as a more recent copy reveals its royal origins.

Harvard bought a Magna Carta 'copy' for US$27 — it turned out to be an original

A "copy" of the Magna Carta purchased by Harvard in the 40s has been confirmed as a rare original from 1300.

Harvard Thought It Had a 1327 Copy of the Magna Carta. Then British Scholars Discovered It’s an Original.

British researchers have determined that a “copy” of the Magna Carta owned by the Harvard Law School Library is a rare original issued by England’s King Edward I in 1300. The copy, previously thought to date back to 1327, was purchased by Harvard in 1946 for $27.

Magna Carta copy bought by Harvard University for just $27 recognised as original document

A copy of Magna Carta bought by Harvard University for just $27 in the 1940s is an original worth $21m, scans have shown.

Harvard’s ‘Unoffical’ Copy of the Magna Carta Turns Out to Be Real

An 'unofficial' version of the Magna Carta held at Harvard University has been declared as an original issued by Edward I from 1300.