Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Magna Carta

Magna Carta

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2013 at 16:19:30 (UTC)

Original – One of only four surviving exemplifications of the 1215 text, Cotton MS. Augustus II. 106, property of the British Library

Reason

High Resolution

Articles in which this image appears

Several Hundred Pages Link to This Image (See Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Magna_Carta.jpg)

FP category for this image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/Others

Creator

Scanned by the British Library

• Support as nominator --Indefatigable2 (talk) 16:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
• Comment is that jpg artefacting or the grain of the paper? Odd how this one is more legible than the Declaration of Independence below. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

• It seems to be both the grain of the parchment as well as jpg artefacting visible in edge effects. Nevertheless, Support — Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 09:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

• Support - Significant document, legible (although I can't read it), EV is through the roof. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:59, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support EV is tremendous. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:07, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support For original historical documents, yay! — raekyt 22:55, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Magna Carta.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:22, 12 July 2013 (UTC)