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The Slavic Library has digitised two manuscripts from the collection of the Ragusiana of Milan Rešetar: a manuscript collection of poems (shelf mark T 342) and an incomplete collection with excerpts from various texts by several authors (shelf mark T 399). Both volumes come from the end of the 17th century and are accompanied by drawings.

The Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region digitised one manuscript and two early printed books in 2022. The manuscript Rk 110 – a Czech prayer book – was written in the second half of the 18th century. The early printed books contain various editions of the prayers of the Capuchin Martin of Cochem. The collection Der grosse Myrrhen-Garten (shelf mark S 109) was printed in Cologne in 1694; the Czech collection Zlatý nebeský klíč [The Golden Key of Heaven] (JK 2498) was published in Jindřichův Hradec around 1760.

An important educational institution founded in the 16th century – the Latin town school in Jáchymov – has provided access to a manuscript of a sheet-music antiphonary with additional texts (shelf mark LC 3). The scribe and perhaps also the compiler of the codex was the teacher and composer Nikolaus Herman, who worked in Jáchymov for more than 40 years. Most of the manuscript was probably written in 1553.

The digitisation of the collections of the National Museum Library in Prague continued in 2022 with another five manuscripts. Medieval codices are represented by a set of patristic homilies and treatises from the end of the 14th century, which used to belong to the library of the house of Augustinian canons in Roudnice nad Labem (shelf mark XIV A 2), a homiliary of the School of Auxerre from the first third of the 15th century (XVIII A 8), and a part of the Old Testament from the first half of the 15th century (XVIII A 19). A large collection of texts of Bohemian land law (II C 2) comes from the early 16th century. The hymnal that contains hymns for the Advent season and the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord and is referred to as the Rychnov Hymnal (I A 34), according to its documented place of use in the 19th century, was written around the middle of the 16th century.