Footnotes
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1]; “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th. April 1855,” [1]; “Historian’s Office Inventory, G. S. L. City March 19, 1858,” [1]; “Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [7], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; see also Historian’s Office, Journal, 17 Oct. 1855.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Footnotes
See Fragment of Book of Breathing for Horos–A, between 238 and ca. 153 bc; Fragment of Book of the Dead for Semminis–B, ca. 300–100 bc; and Ritner, Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, 210. Oliver Cowdery stated in late 1835, “The serpent, represented as walking, or formed in a manner to be able to walk, standing in front of, and near a female figure, is to me, one of the greatest representations I have ever seen upon paper, or a writing substance.” (Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to William Frye, Lebanon, IL, 22 Dec. 1835, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 72–73.)
Ritner, Robert K. The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition, P. JS 1–4 and the Hypocephalus of Sheshonq. Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2011.
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Ritner, Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri, 212.
Ritner, Robert K. The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition, P. JS 1–4 and the Hypocephalus of Sheshonq. Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2011.
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121 | |
130 | |
430 | |
681 | |
480 | |
419 | |
600 | |
2170 | |
1855 | |
4025 | |
3020 | |
7045 |
66 |
37½ |
103½ |
75 |
178½ |
156 |
◊ 22½ |
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William W. Phelps handwriting begins.
TEXT: The math is wrong; this number should be “2180”. This number appears to be based on a chronology of the Old Testament, arriving roughly to what was thought in the nineteenth century to be the time period of Abraham (2170 bc). (See, for example, Yeates, Remarks on the Bible Chronology, 2; and Macdougal, Treatise on the Chronology, 80.)
Yeates, Thomas. Remarks on the Bible Chronology: Being an Essay towards Reconciling the Same with the Histories of the Eastern Nations. London: Richards Watts, 1830.
Macdougal, Duncan. A Treatise on the Chronology, and the Prophetical Numbers, of the Bible, in a Letter Addressed to William Cuninghame, Esq., of Lainshaw, in the County of Ayr. With an Appendix. . . . London: W. Smith, 1840.
TEXT: Possibly an “X” or a “T”.
TEXT: Or “Dayter”. It is unknown to what this name or word refers, or what the preceding seven lines of numbers may signify.