[willmeyers]

When I visited London a few years ago I went to the British Library and stumbled into their collection (and it was incredibly impressive). I had no idea they had two original Magna Cartas. If you have a chance to see the document at Harvard, you should! It's really something.

[dwd]

The Harvard document is a copy of Edward I's 1297 Great Charter that is still partly in force today.

There were earlier versions of the Magna Carta; originally authored by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1215, rejected, revised and eventually reissued and negotiated (largely by force) by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke in 1217.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/magn...

[inopinatus]

Fun fact, there's an inconsistent comma that changes the meaning of clause XXIX.

[metabeard]

This comment is the first result when searching "inconsistent comma clause 29 magna carta" on Google. Can you link to a source?

[inopinatus]

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/section/X...

now compare

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Magna_Ca...

to

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Magna_Ca...

There's a smudge. Of law

[adonovan]

The fourth (and best preserved of all) Magna Cartas is on display in the Chapter House of the cathedral in Salisbury.