The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede Meadows near London. It was annulled just a few weeks later, and ...

A "copy" of Magna Carta bought for under $30 has been found to be a genuine surviving artifact from 1300 CE by British historians who happened upon it. In 1946, the Harvard Law School Library ...

Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna Carta for just $27.50 from a London legal book dealer, Sweet & Maxwell, according to a news release. British researchers from King’s ...

A manuscript once considered an unofficial copy of Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ''one of the world's most valuable documents'', according to UK academics. Harvard Law School ...

Harvard’s Magna Carta is now the seventh original known ... is not simply the consistent application of logical principle,” explained Harvard Law School’s vice dean for Library and ...

Magna Carta was first issued by King John in 1215 ... MS 172 as “one of the world’s most valuable documents.” He explained its importance clearly, “It asserts a fundamental principle ...

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 ...

A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor ...

Magna Carta — Latin for “Great Charter ... “His [Maynard’s] grandson, Peter, explained to me that his grandfather had inherited the papers of Thomas and John Clarkson,” Vincent ...

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 concluded ...

"This uniformity provides new evidence for Magna Carta's status in the eyes of contemporaries," Professor Carpenter explained. "The text had to be correct." "Magna Carta is one of the most famous ...