In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It turns out the university’s Magna Carta “copy” is actually one of now seven original manuscripts penned in 1300. Credit: Harvard Law School“This is a fantastic discovery,” David Carpenter, a medieval historian at King’s College London said in the announcement from Harvard Law School. According to Carpenter, Harvard’s Magna Carta passed “with flying colors.”“This uniformity provides new evidence for Magna Carta’s status in the eyes of contemporaries. Harvard’s Magna Carta is now the seventh original known to still exist.