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With one later exception, the digitised manuscripts from the collections of the Military History Institute come from the 17th–19th centuries and contain mainly various treatises on fortification construction and military unit training, but also notes on military events (in particular the Austrian–Prussian War of 1866, shelf marks IIR C 16172, IIR C 16486 and IIR G 431, as well as the Seven Years’ War, shelf mark IIR F 355) and a military dictionary. The treatment of the history of the second battalion of Austrian field hunters in 1808–1863 by Anton Mudroch (IIR F 527) is exceptional for its size.

In 2016, the National Library of Technology digitised five early printed books and one binder’s volume of them. The works were printed in the 16th–18th centuries mostly in present-day Germany, but also in Poland, Russia and France. Individual volumes contain treatises on mathematics, geometry and natural sciences, partly also applied in practice (shipbuilding, a collection presenting diverse devices and inventions).

The first part of the digitised manuscripts from the National Library of the CR comprises a total of 27 shelf marks coming both from its historical collections and from later acquisitions (i.a. the Thun Library in Děčín and the Prague Lobkowicz Library). These are codices from between the 13th century and the beginning of the 16th century, containing theological as well as preaching, moral-educational, liturgical, astronomical, medical, rhetorical and other texts. Most of them were written in German (shelf mark XVI) and Czech (shelf mark XVII), including e.g. the earliest extant copy of the work Život Krista Pána [The Life of Christ] (XVII A 9), the text O obnovení církve svaté [The Restoration of the Holy Church] (XVII E 31) by Luke of Prague, and translations by Řehoř Hrubý of Jelení (XVII C 19, XVII E 33).

The State Regional Archives Litoměřice – State District Archives have provided access to an extensive collection of Bukovina Annals, which were written by Vilém Žďárský in 1948–1965 based on earlier sources, literature and accounts. The ten volumes of the chronicle and its supplements contain abundant information on various aspects of the life in the Turnov region especially in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.