Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an original version. On May 15, Harvard announced that two British researchers discovered the school's copy is one of the ...

Debora Mayer/Harvard Weissman Preservation Center There are 25 original manuscripts of Magna Carta in all, produced at various times. Including the one at Harvard, only three are outside Britain.

A "cheap copy" of the Magna Carta purchased by Harvard University for $27 has turned out to be a rare original of the iconic document that could be worth millions, according to British researchers.

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.

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians ...

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 was ...

How did an original 1300 Magna Carta end up at Harvard? In 1945, a Royal Air Force veteran, who had inherited the document, sold it at a Sotheby’s auction, where it was incorrectly dated to 1327.

The researchers used images taken by Harvard librarians with ultraviolet light and spectral imaging to compare the text of HLS MS 172 with other original copies of Magna Carta from 1300.