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Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly ...
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 for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...
A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare ...
Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta revealed as an original, the school bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book ...
An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since ...
For decades, Harvard University assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection. The parchment is tattered ...
Imagine you bring along to the Antiques Roadshow a scuffed piece of parchment covered in writing in Latin so faded that you ...
The Harvard Law School library bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. It's now likely worth millions of dollars.
A rare Magna Carta document at Harvard Law School, misidentified for 80 years, has been confirmed as an original from 1300 by ...
Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of ...
The Magna Carta was a landmark legal document responsible for shifting the balance of power away from the kings who had spent ...