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The digitisation of manuscripts from the Military Historical Institute in Prague continued in 2024 with another 28 volumes, which mostly date from the 19th century and were written mainly in the Habsburg Monarchy. The most extensive part consists of the lists and overviews of the deployment of Austrian military units (e.g. shelf marks IIR A 490/1–2 and IIR B 7184/1–2), the treatment of the history of some of them (e.g. IIR C 3482, IIR D 810, IIR F 471, IIR F 532 and IIR F 573) and the lists of their officers (e.g. IIR B 1434 and IIR F 849). The manuscripts also comprise military-training manuals, ceremonial speeches and daily reports.

In 2024, the Regional Museum in Olomouc digitised a manuscript missal of the Olomouc diocese from the last third of the 15th century (shelf mark K-24059). The codex has simply decorated initials. The Canon of the Mass is preceded by a pasted broadside containing a coloured woodcut, probably from southern Germany from after the middle of the 15th century.

The first part of the manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic digitised in 2024 comprises 20 shelf marks, including codices written not only in Latin but also in German (shelf mark XVI) and Czech (a Czech translation of the works of Albertanus of Brescia – shelf mark XVII D 15; Kořeček’s New Testament – shelf mark XVII D 30). In terms of content, it is a set of miscellaneous codices, mostly liturgical manuscripts (Cistercian collection – VI E 17, breviaries – VI E 4a and VI E 4b) and sermons (VI E 6, VII B 13, VII C 16 and VII D 4).

The Royal Collegiate Chapter of Saints Peter and Paul has provided access to an important source on the history of the reconstruction and completion of the Vyšehrad Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul at the turn of the 20th century. The manuscript Ms 001/2024 contains records of income and expenditure related to the reconstruction, but it also provides information on the work carried out and its progress, as well as the associated festivities.