Magna Carta

English: Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum (the Great Charter of Freedoms), is an English legal charter, originally issued in the year 1215. It was written in Latin and is known by its Latin name. The usual English translation of Magna Carta is Great Charter.

Copies of Magna Carta

Copy of Magna Carta
Copy of Magna Carta from the British Library's Online Gallery
Copy of Magna Carta
Copy of Magna Carta
Copy of Magna Carta in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, United States
Copy of Magna Carta in the Members' Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia

Related to Magna Carta

Inscription on the ruins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, relating to enforcement of the Magna Carta
Magna carta cum statutis angliae, (Great Charter with English Statutes) page 1 of manuscript, fourteenth century

Commemorations of the signing of Magna Carta

19th century coloured wood engraving of King John of England signing Magna Carta
King John Granting Magna Carta from the fresco in the Royal Exchange (1900)
John of England signing Magna Carta, from Cassell's History of England (circa 1902)
Sculpture portraying King John and Baron Fitzwalter in the act of sealing the Magna Carta (1997)