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In 2021, the National Library of the Czech Republic – Slavonic Library provided access to six manuscripts and printed books from the 17th–19th centuries from its collections. The printed books are represented by the edition of the Kyiv-Pechersk Paterik (a collection of texts about the monks of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra) from 1661. The manuscripts comprise texts in Croatian (the play Akile/Achilles by the Croatian playwright Junije Palmotić and a poem by Petar Kanavelić written on the occasion of the mission of the ambassador of Dubrovnik to Constantinople) and in Church Slavonic (a collection of various works, A 2, as well as liturgical and paraliturgical texts).

In 2021, the Czech Pharmaceutical Museum in Kuks (a centre of Charles University – the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové) provided access to two manuscripts from the end of the 17th century from its collections. The earlier of them contains records of the pharmacists from the Rajhrad monastery from 1676–1685 (shelf mark HK-SR-4); the other is a recipe book of Georg Philipp Parth, originating in the area of present-day Germany and probably created in 1697 (HK-SR-3).

The National Library of Medicine in Prague digitised in 2021 three documents, including one manuscript and two printed books. The manuscript (shelf mark T 468) was copied in 1819 and contains a collection of recipes and advice on the treatment of specific diseases, bloodletting, the effects of particular medical preparations, etc. The collection Scriptorum Latinorum de aneurysmatibus collectio (T 139), edited by Thomas Lauth, was printed in Strasbourg in 1785, whereas Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens tentamen historiae medicinae by František Sazyma (D 312) comes from the Prague printing workshop of František Jeřábek from 1814.

In 2021, the Olomouc Research Library digitised a Greek manuscript from the second half of the 15th century, probably of Italian origin (shelf mark M I 79). The codex contains Hesiod’s works Opera et dies and Theogonia with commentaries, Pseudo-Hesiodic Scutum Herculis, and other shorter texts.