Boston: 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 researchers have ...

For 80 years, Harvard Law School believed the Magna Carta it bought for $27.50 was a reproduction. Now, British researchers think the document is a genuine version—one of a few still in existence.

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They paid only $27.50 for it from a London bookseller in 1946. Researchers used ultraviolet scans to compare Harvard Law School’s copy of the Magna Carta, word for word, against the other known ...

How Harvard Discovered It Has an Original Copy of the Magna Carta They paid only $27.50 for it from a London bookseller in 1946.