Just 1,215 members of the public will attend the event on 3 February next year at London's British Library to mark the document's 800th anniversary.
The document of basic rights is seen as the cornerstone of constitutional law.
The library's two copies will be joined by those normally housed at Lincoln and Salisbury cathedrals.
Magna Carta, meaning Great Charter, was agreed at Runnymede, Surrey, in 1215.
The charter was issued by King John as a way of solving the political crisis he faced when powerful barons rebelled against him and captured London"
