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Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text, 1981-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
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...
Dates: 1981-2020
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project

Royal Skousen correspondence and publicity on Book of Mormon, 1996-2008

 Sub-Series — Carton: 86, Folder: 15-27
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Particularly correspondence with Skousen's linguistic and other professional colleagues (including sharing of articles), as well as symposium publications and distribution, press releases, travel files, and newspaper excerpts. Materials dated 1996-2008.

Dates: 1996-2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project

Royal Skousen general professional papers, 1951-2014

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains of linguistic theory notebooks leading up to the publication of "Analogical Descriptions of Language" (early version)/"Analogical Modeling of Language" and "Analogy and Structure"; other publications and creative works (separated into presentations, articles, reviews and online publications, research proposals, and humor/poetry/miscellanea); general career correspondence; teaching and research files (separated into sponsoring/employing universities with corresponding...
Dates: 1951-2014
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on linguistic career

Royal Skousen materials for Analysis of textual variants, 2004-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2004-2018
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project / Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : grammatical variation, 1981-2018

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1
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...
Dates: 1981-2018
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project / Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text

Royal Skousen materials for History of the Text of the Book of Mormon: King James quotations in the Book of Mormon, 2005-2019

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2005-2019
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project / Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : spelling in the manuscripts and editions, 2006-2020

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2006-2020
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project / Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text

Royal Skousen materials for History of the text of the Book of Mormon : the nature of the original language, 1985-2019

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2
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...
Dates: 1985-2019
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on Book of Mormon and Critical Text Project / Royal Skousen collation of Book of Mormon text

Royal Skousen media on Book of Mormon, 1991-2005

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
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...
Dates: 1991-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen media

Royal Skousen oversize materials, 1962-2014

 Sub-Series — Box: 38
Identifier: MSS 8255 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains primarily (by bulk) examples of spelling errors (including some original documents and some photocopies, sometimes both) demonstrated by Skousen's children and wife, himself, his students or colleagues, and his neighbors/friends/ward members. It also contains oversize proofs from the O and P manuscripts (Critical Text Project), including introductory material and photo plate drafts. Materials dated 1962-2014.

Dates: 1962-2014
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8255, Royal Skousen papers / Royal Skousen papers on linguistic career / Royal Skousen general professional papers

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