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Three manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries were digitised from the collections of the Museum and Gallery in Prostějov in 2025. These are copies of the play Čech a Němec aneb Mlejn na hranicích (Br 100) by Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, and play Jan Dolinský aneb Krevní právo (Br 103) by Emanuel Schikaneder, and a German-language prayer book (Br 119).

The Cosmography of Claudius Ptolemy was digitized from the collection of books of the Latin School in Jáchymov in 2025. The incunabula were printed in Ulm in 1486 by Johann Reger for the publisher Justus de Albano. The edition also contains 32 woodcut map plates, which have been coloured in this copy; the initials have a simple colour decoration. Manuscript marginalia show the use of printing in the 16th century. The book was donated to the Jáchymov library in 1580 by Jiří Hohreuter.

In 2025, the Museum of the Bohemian Paradise in Turnov provided access to a manuscript written in Czech from the mid-18th century (shelf number R 7), which contains mostly cooking recipes, but also medical and veterinary advice or instructions for the preparation of ink.

The digitisation of the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov - the Strahov Library continued with manuscripts deposited under the shelf numbers DB II to DB IV. The content is a varied mixture of Latin, German and Czech codices, with an exceptional presence of French. The earliest two manuscripts date from the third quarter of the 16th century and contain sermons by John Mystopolous ( DB IV 12, DB IV 13). Most of the codices were written in the 17th and 18th centuries, however, and a large group of them are prayer books; in addition to these, legal works are also represented ( DB IV 3, DB IV 11, DB IV 15, DB IV 16), sermons, speeches and their collections (DB IV 10, DB IV 18), a breviary from the monastery of St. Michael in Hildesheim (DB III 2), a collection of poems (DB II 25) and church hymns (DB II 28), a play (DB III 1), a set of economic regulations from the Opočno estate (DB IV 8) or a catalogue of persons of the Czech Premonstratensian clergy (DB II 40).