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Phelps, 1833) — the press was destroyed by a mob before the book was finished; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign copy; Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Kirtland, Ohio: F. G. Williams & Co., 1835) — the first edition, with the Lectures on Faith; Newberry Library copy; The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, third edition (Nauvoo, Ill.: Printed by John Taylor, 1845) — the first edition printed after the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, closing with the account of their martyrdom; Newberry Library copy; Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, Ill.), vol. 5, no. 16, September 1844 — with the epistle of the Twelve after the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; microfilm (Research Publications); Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, Ill.), vol. 5, no. 17, 15 September 1844 — the trial of Sidney Rigdon before the high council; microfilm (Research Publications); Voree Herald (Voree, Wisconsin Territory), 1846 — James J. Strang's paper, carrying the letter dated Nauvoo, 18 June 1844, by which Strang claimed appointment as Joseph Smith's successor; [James J. Strang], The Diamond: Being the Law of Prophetic Succession and a Defense of the Calling of James J. Strang (Voree, Wis., 1848); Harold B. Lee Library copy", "language": "eng", "license": { "payload": "Public domain: every item was published in the United States between 1830 and 1848. 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Every file checked against the md5 the Archive publishes.", "scope": "The scripture as first printed and as revised: the Book of Mormon in the first edition (Palmyra, 1830) and the third, 'carefully revised by the translator' (Nauvoo, 1840); the revelations in the Book of Commandments (Zion, 1833), left unfinished when a mob destroyed the press, and in the Doctrine and Covenants of 1835 (Kirtland, with the Lectures on Faith) and 1845 (Nauvoo, the edition that announces the martyrdom). Then the succession itself: the Times and Seasons of September 1844, with the epistle of the Twelve and the trial of Sidney Rigdon, and James J. Strang's counter-claim from Voree, the Voree Herald of 1846 and The Diamond of 1848, with the letter of 18 June 1844 on which it rests. The 1837 Kirtland edition of the Book of Mormon was not found in an open scan: QUEUED. Strang's Book of the Law of the Lord (1851; 1856), the RLDS editions (from 1874; the Authorized Version of 1908) and the Pearl of Great Price (1851): QUEUED. Manuscripts held by the Joseph Smith Papers are under that project's terms and are not seated.", "verified_loci": [ "1830, the imprint — 'PRINTED BY E. B. GRANDIN'", "1830, 1 Nephi 1:1 — 'I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents'", "1830, the witnesses — 'THE TESTIMONY OF THREE WITNESSES.'", "1840, the title page — 'CAREFULLY REVISED BY THE TRANSLATOR'", "1833, the imprint — 'PUBLISHED BY W. W. PHELPS'", "1833, chapter I — 'HEARKEN, O ye people of my church'", "1835, the imprint — 'PRINTED BY F. G. WILLIAMS & CO.'", "1845, the imprint — 'PRINTED BY JOHN TAYLOR.'", "1845, the martyrdom — 'To seal the testimony of this book and the Book of'", "Times and Seasons, September 1844 — 'the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb'", "Times and Seasons, 15 September 1844 — 'TRIAL OF ELDER RIGDON.'", "Voree Herald, the letter of appointment — 'James J. Strang hath come to thee from far'", "The Diamond, the letter — 'LETTER OF JOSEPH SMITH TO JAMES J. STRANG.'" ], "loci_not_found": [], "lines_total": 123748, "why_seated": "Asked for as the Book of Mormon, and seated only beside the other traditions that divided in the same years: in 1844 Joseph Smith was killed at Carthage (27 June) and the church he founded split over who should lead it, in the same months that the Bab declared his mission in Shiraz (22–23 May) and the Millerites waited for 22 October.", "spine": "Latter Day Saints, to 1844", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 27 October 2026: \"need to seat the book of mormon but im not doing it without several diverging simultaneous traditions in the batch\" — offered the traditions that divided in 1844 (the Latter Day Saint succession, the Bab's declaration, the Millerite disappointment, the Taiping beginnings), or the Book of Mormon's own editions — \"1. definitely. lets go.\"" }