Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna Carta for just ... unofficial copies of Magna Carta. One professor, David Carpenter, noticed the digital version of the document on the ...

"It is, in a way, the last Magna Carta ... the final emphatic Magna Carta," Carpenter says. Searching through Harvard's digital archives, there were a few giveaways that tipped Carpenter off that ...

A similar Magna Carta sold in 2007 for $21.3 million. Catch up quick: British medieval historian David Carpenter helped identify the document after he stumbled upon it in Harvard's digital archives.

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 in ...

“My reaction was one of amazement and, in a way, awe that I should have managed to find a previously unknown Magna Carta,” Carpenter said. A company specializing in digital research used ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Harvard discovers its $27 “copy” of Magna Carta is a rare 1300 original, authenticated by British historians and linked to ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since 1946, the university thought it only had a copy of the medieval ...

Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval ...

Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna ... Magna Carta. ANCIENT ROMAN MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS FOUND IN 'STRATEGIC LOCATION' One professor, David Carpenter, noticed the digital ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two ...

This photo provided by Harvard Law School shows a rare copy of the Magna Carta from 1300 sits in a display case on April 15, 2025, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (Lorin Granger/Harvard ...