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Magna Carta: see it in the original parchment it was (copied) on!!

There is a free exhibition "Magna Carta - through the ages" on at the moment until July where you can see three authentic copies, albeit different versions through the times, of the Magna Carta, one from Peterborough 'The black book' , one from Halesowen Abbey which is in scroll form than book, and the last called the "Hart book of Statutes" which contains a copy of Henry III Magna Carta as well as developed legislation from that time. The Peterborough version "The Black Book" Its actually correct to call it Magna Carta and not The Magna carta as it's given its name in Latin, a language which has no direct, consistent correlate of the English definite article "the". As a result, the usual academic convention is to refer to the document in English without the article as "Magna Carta" rather than " the Magna Carta'. Halesowen Magna Carta Scroll, and John next to it. (Not King) You are warmly greete...