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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.

In 2025, the Regional Museum and Gallery in Most digitised six modern manuscripts.Most of them are German-language prayer books from the 18th century, but this classification of contents is not matched by the collection of medical and cooking advice and recipes (118/Ruk) and the collection of sermons, provincial regulations and other documents of the Franciscan Order, compiled in 1743 by the provincial Matthias Kollnberger.