The history department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the acquisition within the past two months of yet more fragments from the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon printer’s manuscript has been published virtually in its entirety, but what LDS historians consider the “crown jewel” of the book’s origin — the original manuscript handwritten as Joseph Smith dictated to scribes his translation of the Nephite record preserved on gold plates — exists only in fragmentary form.