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English: The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin, using standard abbreviations of the period, authenticated with the Great Seal of King John. The original wax seal was lost over the centuries. This document is held at the British Library and is identified as "British Library Cotton MS Augustus II.106".
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One of four known surviving 1215 exemplars of Magna Carta.
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Catalogue entry: Cotton MS Augustus II 106
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Embroidered version of image, from Magna Carta (An Embroidery) (2015).
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La Magna Carta Libertatum, conservata nella British Library di Londra
Salinan orisinal Magna Carta
Original copy of the Magna Carta
Великая Хартия вольностей (первоначально известная как Хартия Свобод) 1215 года, написанная железными галловыми чернилами на пергаменте на средневековой латыни с использованием стандартных сокращений того периода.
higher resolution, and this is the original 1215 version of the Magna Carta, not the 1225 (as was originally uploaded) or the 1297 (the last version uploaded).
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One of four surviving copies of the 1215 Magna Carta. This copy is one of two held at the British Library. It came from the collection of Sir Robert Cotton, who died in 1631. In 1731, a fire at Ashburnam House in Westminster, where his library was then housed, destroyed or damaged many of the rare manuscripts, which is why this copy is burnt.
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