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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...

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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...

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Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Particularly, hiring and research time files for student Matt Empey, Skousen's daughter Christina, and other student and assistant researchers, including correspondence and campus memos, timecards, work authorizations, and research notes (reference checks, spelling variants). Materials dated 1995-1999.

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Contains proofs of 9 revisions (1, 3.1-3.3, 4, 6, 8/9, 10, and 11) of Skousen's book "The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text" (printed by Yale University Press, hence the nickname of "Yale Edition"), as well as proofs of the 1st and 2nd printings. Also included are a page layout chart, corrections, and memorandums. Materials dated 2008-2014.

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Contains a set of black and white ultraviolet photographs of the Wilford Wood fragments of the original Book of Mormon manuscript. David W. Hawkinson reportedly photographed the fragments in October 1991 at the Harold B. Lee Library conservation lab. As the editor of the Book of Mormon critical text project, Royal Skousen was in possession of the photographs and eventually donated them to Brigham Young University in 1992. Materials dated October 1991.

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Contains research on version of the Bible (mostly in the form of photocopied excerpts from versions published between 1611 and 1979), including printouts of Isaiah quotations in the Book of Mormon, card catalog notes and printouts of Bible call numbers, and research schedules. Materials dated 1993-1994.

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Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular are photocopies of pages from editions of the Book of Mormon published between 1837 and 1990 (including Reorganized Church versions), extra and undated/miscellaneous pages, articles and charts on kinds of textual changes, scribes, transcription symbols, notes, and correspondence. Materials dated approximately 2000-2010.

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,...