Special Collections: Select a collection to view info The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection The Jean Cujé Milwaukee Music Collection Dorothy Day — Catholic Worker Collection Rare Books and Antiphonals Native America Collections

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The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection

The manuscript collection of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien contains the author’s working papers for his three well-known novels:

• The Hobbit (1937)
  
• Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
  
• The Lord of the Rings (1954-55), including original holographs, typescripts and galley sheets with numerous holograph corrections.

The original copy of his children’s book, Mr. Bliss, (published in facsimile form in 1982) done in Tolkien’s best calligraphy with color illustrations on each page, also is included, as is a host of published and unpublished materials relating to Tolkien’s life and fantasy writings.

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The Jean Cujé Milwaukee Music Collection

Dedicated to the memory of Jean Cujé, a librarian who served the Marquette community from 1979 to 1992, this unique compilation includes music in all formats recorded by artists in the Milwaukee area. It has been gathered through donations or purchases to serve the local community.

Materials include:

• Albums and 45s
• CDs, cassettes
• Videos and related items

Playing equipment is available so that visitors and researchers may enjoy the music on the premises.

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Dorothy Day — Catholic Worker Collection

The Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, calls upon Christians to take personal responsibility and direct action to create a new society.

Catholic Workers perform works of mercy in “houses of hospitality,” feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and embracing the ideal of voluntary poverty

The Catholic Worker movement has been at the forefront of the struggle against war, discrimination and social injustice.

The collection includes:

• Personal papers of Day and Maurin and others involved in the movement
  
• Records of past and present Catholic Worker communities
  
• Photographs
  
• Audio and videotapes of interviews, speeches, television programs and peace demonstrations
  
• Variety of publications

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Rare Books and Antiphonals

Marquette’s earliest printed works within the Department of Special Collections and University Archives form a small collection of incunabula (from the “cradle period” of Western printing).

This includes:

• 1473 edition of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei (The City of God) from the presses of Johannes Fust and Peter Schoeffer, Gutenberg’s successors in Mainz
  
• A 15th century, two-volume edition of the Old Testament, printed within a central text block with surrounding commentary by Nicholas de Lyra
  
• 12-volume set of antiphonals (illuminated manuscript choir books), completed in 1562.
  
• The rare Irish book, The Triad of Miracle Workers: St. Patrick, St. Columba and St. Brigid of Ireland, transcribed and prepared for publication in 1640
  
  

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Native America Collections

Through the efforts of the Society of Jesus and other religious orders, the Catholic Church evangelized America’s native peoples on an extraordinary scale resulting in extensive documentation of their languages, histories and cultures.

Mindful of its mission as a Catholic university and recognizing the value and preservation needs of these unique church resources, Marquette has made a special commitment to preserve these materials.

Most notable records are:

• The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and the Tekakwitha Conference, two organizations of national and international scope
  
• Holy Rosary Mission – Red Cloud Indian School and St. Francis Mission, two Jesuit missions in South Dakota

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