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The Regional Museum in Litomyšl has made two autographs of Magdalena Dobromila Rettig available online from its collections. The more extensive one (R-207) contains parts of the text Mladá hospodyňka v domácnosti jak sobě počínati má, aby své i manželovy spokojenosti došla, published in Prague in 1840, and documents the author's creative writing style, including corrections and additions to the text (the autograph dates from 1833). The shorter text (R-206) is a German-language autobiography. The manuscript is incomplete or incompletely preserved, yet these notes are the most comprehensive biography of Magdalena Dobromila Rettig.

Four volumes from the Prague Conservatory collections were digitised in 2025. The oldest of these was written in 1718 and contains Alessandro Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'onore; according to the information on the decorated binding, it was written for Jan Václav of Gallas. The other three date from the late 18th century and are a piano excerpt from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and a cantata by Leopold Koželuh for the coronation of Leopold II.

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).