Only 232 pages have survived, but the latest Joseph Smith Papers volume makes them available and offers a peek at how the faith’s signature scripture came to be.
Robin Scott Jensen, co-editor of a new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers that focuses on the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon, looks at several pages from the original manuscript in the Church History Library on Jan. 19, 2022.In 1841, church founder Joseph Smith placed the original Book of Mormon manuscript into the cornerstone of a hotel he was building in Nauvoo, Ill., and sealed it with molten lead, believing the sacred text would be preserved forever.
Those fragments, which are mostly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, now have been painstakingly reassembled, photographed and published as the 23rd volume of the landmark“It is the first complete photographic record,” the Utah-based faithThese revelations and translations “were at the heart of Joseph Smith’s prophetic mission. These texts are vital to the restoration of the gospel,” church President Russell M.
Utah philanthropist Gail Miller — with her late husband, Larry Miller, and her current husband, Kim Wilson — helped fund the Joseph Smith Papers project.
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