After reaching an agreement with E. B. Grandin to print the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith told Oliver Cowdery to create a second manuscript of the translation from the golden plates for the printer. He was concerned with the manuscript being stolen (like the first 116 pages) so he wanted to ensure that it would not happen again.1 Lucy Mack Smith recorded that Joseph gave Oliver three other "commandments" to further ensure the safety of the printer's manuscript: first, he should only take one manuscript to the printer at a time, second, Oliver should always have a guard when traveling between his home and the printing office, and third, the manuscript should be guarded at all other times.2
Punctuation was added to the translation for the first time by John Gilbert, an employee in the printing office. This manuscript is important because it is the earliest full manuscript of the Book of Mormon.3 Oliver Cowdery owned it and it was later sold to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2017 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints acquired it.4
