Lost Magna Carta Original Identified in $27.50 Harvard Deal

A manuscript once thought to be an unofficial copy of the Magna Carta has now been confirmed by scholars to be an original.

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased the manuscript for just $27.50, and it sat largely unnoticed in the library for decades, BBC reported. Now, two medieval history experts have identified it as a rare, long-lost original Magna Carta from the year 1300 during King Edward I’s reign and potentially valued in the millions.

The document caught the attention of Professor David Carpenter from King’s College London, who saw digitized images on the university’s website and began analyzing them.