Four copies of Magna Carta to be shown together for first time

The British Library is offering just 1,215 people via a public ballot the once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the four surviving manuscripts from 1215 side by side

The four surviving copies of the original Magna Carta from 1215 will come together for the first time in history next February as part of a one-off event to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the historic document.

The Magna Carta literally, Great Charter was issued by King John in 1215, as his barons revolted and civil war loomed. It saw the monarch avert crisis by acknowledging that the king was not above the law, and with the granting of a range of rights to English citizens. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice, runs one of its most famous clauses.

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