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Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular are Skousen's complete collation files on the Book of Mormon text, title page through Moroni 10, in main bulk and original drafts. This includes symbol keys and stemma, progressive editions of each passage's collation, overhead sheets, articles, cue sheets, library research notes, and directory and file printouts. Also includes research, writing, and...

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Contains draft files and other materials related to the publication of Volume 4 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, comprising 6 parts in 2 editions. Includes publication information, changes incorporated into the second edition, printed copies (1st edition) and uncut signatures (2nd edition) of the six parts, etc. Material dated 2004-2018.

Scope and Contents Contains topical drafts and publication/presentation files for Volume 3/Parts 1-2 of his Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, printed in 2019. This includes drafts and proofs of introduction and background/setup material, article and presentation drafts (his own and those of his collaborator, Stanford Carmack), loose printed signatures (trimmed and untrimmed), PDFs, drafts of the alphabetical topical sections oof the book (specific words and phrases as well as grammatical...

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Contains materials related to the publication of Part 5 of Volume 3 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes printed signatures, proofs and corrections, PDFs, introduction material, topical sections, collation and sorting files, etc. Materials dated 2005-2019.

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Contains writing and publication materials for Volume 3, Part 6 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, including introductory material, formatting details, chapter and topical section files (graphemes, capitalization, spacing, hypens, punctuation, etc.), background information on Book of Mormon scribes, analysis of misspellings, PDFs, index cards, reviews, final versions, uncut signatures, etc. Materials dated 2006-2020.

Scope and Contents Contains materials in preparation for the publication of Parts 3 and 4 of Volume 3 of Royal Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes lectures, index cards, lists of words and phrases, conference and symposium papers (Skousen's as well as his peers'), structure and editing files, corrections, introduction material, alphabetical topical files (grammar, syntax, vocabulary, phonology, etc.), work of/with collaborator Stanford Carmack, background information on Joseph Smith...

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contains assorted Book of Mormon Critical Text Project media: floppy disks (3.5" and 5.25") of computer files on the various editions of the Book of Mormon (1830-1981 and mixed), chronological groupings of editions (early, Kirtland, Nauvoo, LDS, Reorganized, or turn-of-the-century), manuscripts O and P in various versions and revisions, collations, general and miscellaneous...

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Consists of manuscript drafts, photocopies of research material, correspondence, articles, reviews, and presentations, publicity, variant searches and hour logs, other authors' books and articles on the Book of Mormon, photographs of the original Book of Mormon manuscript, and publication materials for volumes 3 and 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series. Materials dated 1981-2020.

Scope and Contents Contains the majority of the research and publication files for Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project: preliminary research and drafts and original volumes, Original and Printer's manuscripts (3 volumes altogether), Analysis of Textual Variants (6 volumes), and emendations. This includes early or progressive drafts and bindings, correspondence, facsimile photocopies, overhead transparencies, notecards, slides, transcriptions, proofs, variant collations, symbol keys, articles and...

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Particularly research and draft files for various articles and reviews written by Skousen, as well as presentations and lectures given based on some of these articles. Also included are comparative collations of Isaiah quotations in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon, correspondence, agreements, writing and presentation guides, travel itineraries and souvenirs,...