Modern Manuscripts from the Regional Museum in Teplice

In 2025, the Regional Museum in Mikulov made 25 prints from its collection available online. The vast majority of these are incunabula from the former Dietrichstein Library in Mikulov. In terms of content, they are mainly legal and theological texts and sermons, but also works by ancient authors, which were also used for university teaching. The collection includes printed works from a number of important centers of the late 15th century, including Venice in Italy, Lyon and Strasbourg in France, and Leipzig, Cologne, Speyer, Nürnberg, and Basel in what is now Germany and Switzerland. Some volumes contain older ownership records documenting acquisitions by the Dietrichstein library. Among the known former owners are, for example, the books of physician Jeroným Münzer and imperial councilor Ferdinand Hoffmann of Grünbüchl and Střechov. The only younger print is a new acquisition of the museum collections, the Venetian print of Francesco Barozzi's Cosmography from 1585 (MIK 3139), which belonged to the library of the physician Jakub Konrad Praetorius of Perlenberk.

In 2025, the library of the Premonstratensian Canonry in Nová Říše made four more manuscripts available online. The oldest of these is a part of the Bible dating from around the second half of the 13th century (NŘ 68). Two other codices, based on the language of the texts or annotations, originate from a German-speaking environment: a collection of sermons and legends, NŘ 16, dating from around the second quarter of the 15th century, and a legal compendium, NŘ 84, dating from around the third quarter of the 15th century. The collection of theological and meditative texts NŘ 30, dated 1475, is of Czech origin.

In 2025, the digitization of manuscripts of the collector and mercantilist Jan Kryštof Bořek (DC I 7, DD I 1-7, and DE I 1-5) from the collections of the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov – Strahov Library was completed. This is the third edition of his collection of documents, which was compiled from the end of the second decade of the 18th century to the end of the 1720s. The individual volumes contain various reports relating to both the past of the Czech lands and Bořek's present – often copies of official documents related to his official and economic activities. The last volume (DE I 5) contains an incomplete index for the entire collection.

In 2025, the Military Historical Institute in Prague digitized another 27 documents, mostly in German, dating mainly from the 19th century. More frequently represented are sources on the history of military units or accounts of their history (IIR B 2490, IIR F 539, IIR F 540, IIR F 1472) and textbooks and texts on military training (IIR B 2875, IIR B 7181, IIR F 245, IIR F 542, IIR F 850). However, the documents also cover a number of other areas. For example, a Czech manuscript entitled Článkové vojanský pro císařsko-královskou armádu from the period between 1835 and 1849 (IIR B 8530) has been made available, excerpts devoted to various types of weapons compiled by Florian Amtsbüchler (IIR C 13304), a certificate issued to pipe manufacturer M. Kiascheck (IIR F 1470), the educational poem Die Geschichte by Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal (IIR D 2568), an obituary and materials on the life of Count Jeroným Colloredo-Mansfeld (IIR F 450), and other works devoted to weapons and fortifications.

In 2025, Bedřich Smetana's autograph and a collection of Antonín Dvořák's autographs, including complete scores as well as sketches and drafts, were digitized from the manuscript collection of the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic. Some of these materials come from the estate of conductor Václav Talich.

In 2025, the Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region provided access to six more manuscripts. This is a collection of Czech prayer books from the first half of the 19th century, with homogeneous content. The extensive codex Rk 108 also contains a number of religious songs. In some cases, these are apparently copies of printed works (Rk 105, Rk 111). Manuscript Rk 109 is accompanied by eight full-page illustrations.

In 2025, the Regional Museum in Teplice digitised three manuscripts containing records of theological lectures given by students from the Cistercian monastery in Osek during their studies at the Archbishop's Seminary in Prague between 1718 and 1751. Among the lecturers were, for example, Jerome Besnecker, the abbot of Osek, or Benedikt Bayer, the provost of the monastery in Doksany.

In 2025, the Museum of the Brno Region digitised three more medieval manuscripts from the library of the Benedictine Abbey in Rajhrad. All of them date from the beginning of the 15th century from the Czech lands, as evidenced, among other things, by Czech-language glosses. The manuscripts include collections of sermons (shelf numbers R 372, R 382) and an interpretation of the Gospel of St John by Nicholas of Gorran (R 375).

In 2025, the National Museum Library provided online access to the summer part of the Minorite antiphonary of Czech origin (shelf number XV A 1). The manuscript is dated to the period around 1380 on the basis of its decoration, and the oficium for the feast of St Wenceslas, which is recorded in it, represents one of the basic sources for understanding its medieval form in the context of the Minorite Order.

A martyrology from the first half of the 14th century (shelf number M II 100) was digitised from the collections of the Olomouc Research Library in 2025. The manuscript was probably intended for a monastery of the Minorite order and, according to the obituary inscriptions in the margins of the pages, was certainly used in the Czech environment in the Middle Ages, perhaps in Olomouc, where it is evidenced in the 15th century.