JSPP – Introduction of Revelations and Translations Volume 2
March 23, 2011 26 Comments
News! Release of the JSP Revelations and Translations vol. 2: Published Revelations. The book has scans of Oliver Cowdery’s Book of Commandments
CHL: Cumorah Room
Rick Turley: World of the Book, The Digital World. Decision: publish 20-22 books in JSP, but every bit on digital. JSPP midway between worlds. Goes through planned volumes. Talks about large format of Rev and Trans (sold 32,000 -wow). a new 7×10 version without the images comes out today. Today announcing volume 2- published versions. [Interruptions due to communications problems. Online people can’t hear things. Updates on comments.]
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Rick Turley shows copies of Book of Commandments represented in the volume. Wilford Woodruff’s and some of Oliver Cowdery’s BoC. Books worth 7 figures.
images of an 1835 D&C plus images of 1840 edition. Also contains Evening and Morning Star excerpted revelations, and other stuff.
Bill are you at a news event?
Yeah. Up at CHL.
Mega-jealous. This is exciting news though.
Robin Jensen: volume contains every published compilation during JS’s lifetime. Some broadsides and singles not represented. The revelations were used as a tool to determine succession, etc. after JS’s death.
Robin on BC: it’s incomplete. Not all the intended revelations made it in surviving volumes. Explains setup of volumes. This is a textual study (yay!). The images are line numbered. JSPP crew present in the volume a proposed completion of BC.
Volume has prints and reprints of revelations in both versions of the Star.
So this is the Kirtland Revelation Book volume, correct?
Robin: explains D&C. For each revelation, source texts identified. About 90% of cases this can be done.
Contents: Woodruff’s BC, parts of Cowdery’s BC, 1835 D&C, 1844 D&C (seven items appear in 1844 not in 1835 -the rest is the same as 1835). Biographical info on those working in printing offices plus editors. Also speaks to the code-words.
This is for JSP:RT2, which should be on my doorstep any minute now, according to FedEx…
Is this a press event?
Riley Lorimer (spelling?)- copy editor – type setter – designer of volume: Duotone photographs used instead of full color. Full color requires much more expense, that was the main decider.
Riley talks about Star publications. D&C 20 example. Ordination of priests, teachers, licenses. 1835 version ads two paragraphs about high priests, etc. Book is a great resource to see how Church organization evolved. Textual presentation shows how these additions occurred. Great stuff.
13 items suggested as additions for BC. Measuring signature word content helped to place those last 13. Extant BC has 5 gatherings, one more added.
Asked Robin privately about accounting for stop press changes and the like. Robin said they tried to catch some of that for BC, but for the 1835 D&C it was beyond what they felt they could do in a reasonable time.
Rick Turley predicts 2 volumes of JSPP per year for the next several years. No specific ordering in volume categories.
Questions about how volumes have been accepted. JSPP has been active in promoting the volumes, research libraries are picking them up gradually.
Question: do these volumes contain all of JS’s revelation corpus. Answer: No (it’s a bit more complex than that) but all of them will appear either in Document series or online.
Rick Turley: 65,000 copies of Journals 1 are out there. No decision on whether council of 50 minutes will come out. Some of these administrative items are discussed heavily. Next journals volume goes 1841- April 1843.
Pics available:
http://www.lifeongoldplates.com/2011/03/joseph-smith-papers-project-bloggers.html
If council of 50 minutes are ever considered, I’d work for free to edit. hehe.
Thanks, WVS. Did anyone ask about DesBooks refusal to offer the volume through Amazon or BN.com (I had one pre-ordered on BN.com, but they canceled it the other day)?
Nothing said or asked about that.
Will, Now I remember how I knew you — through your great boap project (that I’ve been following since it was available only through ftp). It was nice to meet you.
And … great report!
Clair, you’re admitting to being around a long time! Thanks.
Yup — been around for a while. As I recall, your stuff was housed at math.byu.edu — or something like that.