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In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s ...
Harvard University purchased what it thought was a cheap replica of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50 — but it turns out the ...
Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It's been hiding ...
British academics who identified the faded manuscript as an original hailed it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents ...
Harvard had an Antiques Roadshow moment when a professor discovered that an original copy of the Magna Carta was worth ...
Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...
A manuscript purchased by Harvard University for less than $30 as a water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, an ...
Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta ...
Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of ...
"Harvard’s Magna Carta deserves celebration ... Nicholas Vincent, a professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia, said it is "a totem of liberty, central to our sense of ...
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...
Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly ...