The following are excerpts from documents written in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams and Oliver Cowdery, respectively. Unfortunately my copies of these documents are from crummy microfilm and are very poor quality. Nevertheless, I provide them for your interest. These two documents, which contain basically the same content and appear to have been made for the scribes' private reference, are the only documents of which I am aware that offer interpretations for Book of Mormon characters. If you know of any other such documents, please bring them to my attention!
Williams:
Cowdery:
Transcription from Williams document:Characters on the book of Mormon---
The books of Mormon The interpreter of Languages
[chars.] [chars.]
Transcription from Cowdery document:The Book of Mormon The interpreter of language
[chars.] [chars.]
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Do we know when these were written? And are they the same characters from the Anthon transcript? It's hard to tell in the pictures.
FG Williams' son believed that his father had been showed these characters in the Kirtland temple, presumably 1835 or thereabouts. That's about the same time as the Hebrew study and the production of the KEP.
I don't think these particular characters are on the so-called Anthon transcript, but very similar ones certainly are.
That's interesting, I didn't realize anyone else had drawn the characters.
Did you see my MSP post about how the Anthon transcript resembled a transcript of actual Egyptian writings that had been published several decades before Joseph Smith began translating the BoM?
Hi chanson!
Fascinating stuff! There are indeed several interesting parallels between those two documents!
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