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In 2025, two more manuscripts were made available online from the collections of the Town Museum and Gallery Polička. Under the shelf number K 127 is a copy of the work Zdravá rada lékařská, authored by Jan Tonsoris. The text has been printed repeatedly since 1771 and this copy is probably an adaptation of one of the printed editions. Under the shelf number K 165 are the notes of Tomáš Sýkora, a tailor from Polička, which relate to the years 1666-1794, but the vast majority of them inform about the events of the 18th century.

The Regional Museum in Louny has made five more manuscripts from the last quarter of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century available online from its collections in 2025. Most of them are prayer books (three in Czech and one in German), there is also a copy of a medical work Vysvětlení onich mocných, užitečných a hojitedlných distilovaných olejův (shelf number S 4919).

In 2025, the National Technical Library provided access to seven manuscripts from the last third of the 18th to the second half of the 19th century. The oldest of these is F. J. Höfler's treatise Ob die Erziehung oder der moralische Charakter einer Nation für das erste Grundgesetz aller Staaten angenommen werden könne from 1770 (St 182), the lecture notes of Johann Friedrich August Göttling and Franz Anton Herget, František Josef Gerstner's Bericht über den Zustand der Elbeschiff-Fahrt im Jahre 1822 ( St 428), a report on the London Industrial Exhibition of 1851 and student calculations.