The Joseph Smith Papers Project announces the addition of the following new content and features to its website, josephsmithpapers.org:
- The Kirtland Egyptian Papers, including images of the "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language"; transcripts and images of "Egyptian Counting," the three versions of "Egyptian Alphabet," and two notebooks with Egyptian characters and English entries; and images of two other documents with characters and illustrations. Also included is a brief introduction to the Egyptian material.
- Fragments of the Egyptian papyri purchased by the church in 1835.
The Egyptian manuscripts featured here, which constitute all the known and extant JS Egyptian manuscripts, range from a "counting" document to several "alphabet" documents to sheets of copied hieroglyphs. Scribes created entries on pages within a ledger book as well, titled "Grammar & Aphabet of the Egyptian Language." In total, there is one ledger book, six other assorted records, and two small notebooks of copied hieroglyphs with English commentary. Some of the records are integral to one another; others are more textually tied to the papyri and extant manuscripts of the Book of Abraham.
