Full color images on every spread provide unprecedented access to Joseph Smith's revelation texts.
This volume features two manuscript books into which scores of Joseph Smith's revelations, dated from 1828 to 1834, were copied by early church scribes. The revelations copied into these two books became the primary basis for the canonized books of Joseph Smith's revelations: the Book of Commandments, published in 1833, and the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835). These revelation books rank among the most important documents in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 
In this oversize, full-color volume, the handwritten revelations are reproduced on the left-hand pages, with the corresponding transcriptions (including annotations) on the right-hand pages. This landmark work provides easy access to accurate and complete texts of these foundational documents.

The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books

Religion & Spirituality

Robin Scott Jensen

Robert J. Woodford

Steven C. Harper

Christian Books & Bibles

Church Historian's Press

Provides full access to the complete texts of two early books into which Joseph Smith's revelations were copied by hand.
Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books is a sister volume to the oversize facsimile edition. This version is the smaller, library edition. Like the facsimile edition, it presents scores of Joseph Smith's revelations, dated from 1828 to 1834, that became the basis for the canonized books of revelations: the Book of Commandments (1833) and the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835). Unlike the earlier facsimile edition, this edition does not include reproductions of the handwritten revelations themselves. However, this volume does include: 
-Complete, color-coded transcripts of the handwritten revelations, rendering each scribe's handwriting in a different color, to facilitate analysis of revisions made by various scribes. 
-Introductions to place these vital documents in their historical settings and enhance understanding of them. 
-Selected photographs. 
This volume provides easy access to all who want to carefully study and more fully appreciate these foundational documents.

The Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books

The handy one-volume collection of the Book of Commandments, the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, and other key early printed versions of Joseph Smith's revelations. This volume of the Revelations and Translations series presents Joseph Smith's revelations in the form that most early Latter-day Saints read and experienced them. The volume features high-quality photographs of each page of the Book of Commandments (1833), the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835), and seven additional texts added to the second edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1844).
The volume also includes transcripts of twenty-six revelation texts published in the church newspaper The Evening and the Morning Star and its later, reprinted version, Evening and Morning Star. The book also includes a proposed reconstruction of what likely would have been included in the final thirty-two pages of the Book of Commandments and selected photographs of a copy of the Book of Commandments marked up to prepare revelations for publication in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants. 
The volume goes hand in hand with the first volume in this series, and together they illuminate the process by which revelations were revised, edited, prepared for publication, and printed. The volume is printed in three colors.

The Joseph Smith Papers, Vol. 2: Revelations and Translations, Published Revelations (Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations)

Richard E. Turley Jr.

Riley M. Lorimer

Now, one of the earliest Book of Mormon texts is available in full color. Winner of the Mormon History Association's Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography Award, 2016.
Joseph Smith and his associates created two manuscripts of the Book of Mormon. The original manuscript was created while the text of the Book of Mormon was actually being dictated. Only roughly 30 percent of this original manuscript survives as a result of extensive water damage. The printer's manuscript, which is almost entirely complete, is a copy of the original that was created to facilitate the publication of the first edition of the Book of Mormon. 
This volume is a facsimile edition of the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon. The manuscript is presented here with full-color photographs of each page and color-coded transcripts that show which revisions were made by which scribe. This book gives readers unprecedented access to this early text of the Book of Mormon.

The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 1: Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 1-Alma 35

Royal Skousen

Now, one of the earliest Book of Mormon texts is available in full color. Winner of the Mormon History Association's Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography Award, 2016.
Joseph Smith and his associates created two manuscripts of the Book of Mormon. The original manuscript was created while the text of the Book of Mormon was actually being dictated. Only roughly 30 percent of this original manuscript survives as a result of extensive water damage. The printer's manuscript, which is almost entirely complete, is a copy of the original that was created to facilitate the publication of the first edition of the Book of Mormon. This volume is a facsimile edition of the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon. The manuscript is presented here with full-color photographs of each page and color-coded transcripts that show which revisions were made by which scribe. This book gives readers unprecedented access to this early text of the Book of Mormon.

The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Part 2: Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, Alma 36-Moroni 10

Revelations and Translations, Volume 4 presents three sets of documents: the surviving fragments of the papyri purchased by Joseph Smith and his associates in 1835, the documents they made as they tried to decipher Egyptian characters from the papyri, and the manuscripts and first published version of the Book of Abraham. This book marks the first time that full-color photographs and typographic facsimiles of all these documents have been published in a single volume.

Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations, V. 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts

Brian M. Hauglid

The Church Historian's Press and Deseret Book

The twelfth volume in the Documents series, to be published in April 2021, features ninety-six documents including Joseph Smith's correspondence, accounts of his discourses, and his last major written revelation. The volume also features a representative selection of his more routine documents such as deeds, ecclesiastical authorizations, and financial and legal records.

The Joseph Smith Papers Documents, Volume 12: March-July 1843

Matthew C. Godfrey

David W. Grua

Christopher James Blythe

Brent M. Rogers

Jessica M. Nelson

The Church Historian's Press

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