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LDS church announces release of the original printer manuscript to the BOM:
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...1da755958.html
Interestingly, some more tidbits later in the article:
Here is the article preview:
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2015/10/j...-seer?lang=eng
And here is a picture of the stone:
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...1da755958.html
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a collaborative effort with the Community of Christ, on Tuesday released the original printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon.
According to Dale Jones, LDS Church spokesman, there has been a close collaboration between the two churches in the restoration of the dilapidated manuscript.
The manuscript was the one printer E. B. Grandin used to set the type and print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The manuscript is being featured in a new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
According to Dale Jones, LDS Church spokesman, there has been a close collaboration between the two churches in the restoration of the dilapidated manuscript.
The manuscript was the one printer E. B. Grandin used to set the type and print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The manuscript is being featured in a new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
An accompanying article on the history of the Book of Mormon translation will appear in the October 2015 issue of the LDS Church’s Ensign magazine, and is now available online.
Both the introduction to the new volume and the magazine article discuss the instruments Smith used to translate, and both include never-before-seen photographs of a seer stone he likely used in the translation of the Book of Mormon.
“The stone he used in the translation was often referred to as a chocolate-colored stone with an oval shape,” said an LDS Church statement. “The stone was passed from Joseph Smith to scribe Oliver Cowdery and then from Cowdery’s widow, Elizabeth Whitmer Cowdery, to Phineas Young.
"Young then passed it on to his brother, Brigham Young, the second president of the Church. After President Young died, one of his wives, Zina D. H. Young, donated it to the Church.”
Both the introduction to the new volume and the magazine article discuss the instruments Smith used to translate, and both include never-before-seen photographs of a seer stone he likely used in the translation of the Book of Mormon.
“The stone he used in the translation was often referred to as a chocolate-colored stone with an oval shape,” said an LDS Church statement. “The stone was passed from Joseph Smith to scribe Oliver Cowdery and then from Cowdery’s widow, Elizabeth Whitmer Cowdery, to Phineas Young.
"Young then passed it on to his brother, Brigham Young, the second president of the Church. After President Young died, one of his wives, Zina D. H. Young, donated it to the Church.”
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2015/10/j...-seer?lang=eng
And here is a picture of the stone:
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