LATTER-DAY-SAINTS
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
provenance
edition · Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor, The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi (Palmyra [N.Y.]: Printed by E. B. Grandin for the Author, 1830) — the first edition; University of Pittsburgh Library System copy; The Book of Mormon, third edition, carefully revised by the translator (Nauvoo, Ill.: Robinson and Smith, 1840) — the edition with Joseph Smith's revisions; Harvard University copy; A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ, Organized According to Law, on the 6th of April, 1830 (Zion [Independence, Mo.]: W. W. 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
license · payload: Public domain: every item was published in the United States between 1830 and 1848. Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes and of a microfilm of a public-domain periodical. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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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.