Magna Carta
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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
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Copy of Magna Carta
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Copy of Magna Carta from the British Library's Online Gallery
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Copy of Magna Carta
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Copy of Magna Carta
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Copy of Magna Carta in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, United States
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Copy of Magna Carta in the Members' Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Related to Magna Carta
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Inscription on the ruins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, relating to enforcement of the Magna Carta
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Magna carta cum statutis angliae, (Great Charter with English Statutes) page 1 of manuscript, fourteenth century
Commemorations of the signing of Magna Carta
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19th century coloured wood engraving of King John of England signing Magna Carta
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King John Granting Magna Carta from the fresco in the Royal Exchange (1900)
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John of England signing Magna Carta, from Cassell's History of England (circa 1902)
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Sculpture portraying King John and Baron Fitzwalter in the act of sealing the Magna Carta (1997)