An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a “fairly ...

Tests were carried out on the Harvard Law School Library document and it was confirmed to be an original issue of the Magna Carta from 1300.

A manuscript once considered an unofficial “copy” of the Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ‘‘one of the ...