text eng Includes a facsimile of the Lincoln Bible, the Bible with which President Abraham Lincoln took his oath of office on March 4, 1861, held by the Library of Congress. This Bible was used by President Barack Obama for his oath of office on both January 20, 2009 and on January 21, 2013. The facsimile includes the inscription by William Thomas Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, certifying that the Bible was used in the ceremony in 1861, with the blue paper seal of the court. The collection is issued in a clamshell box. The Bible facsimile is bound in velvet and fits into the base of the box; the pamplets are held in a folder attached to the top of the box. [Invitation to the January 20, 2009, presidential inauguration] -- Inauguration ceremonies program -- Inauguration day prayer service -- Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Inaugurations. Obama, Barack--Inaugurations. Presidents--United States--Inauguration. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lincolnbible.1