The bible was the oath book of President Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861.
[3][4] The back flyleaf of the Bible bears the seal of the Supreme Court of the United States along with a record of the 1861 inauguration.
William Thomas Carroll, the clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, fetched a Bible that he kept for official use.
[8] The Bible was on display at the Library of Congress from February to May 2009 in a celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.
[3] The Bible was used to swear in Carla Hayden as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016.