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Twenty-five codices have been digitised from the collections of the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books of the National Library of the Czech Republic. They come from several language or provenance groups. The first consists of Central European Latin manuscripts (from the Czech lands as well as Austria and Germany) from the 14th and 15th centuries. The manuscripts mostly contain preaching works (the authors include e.g. Milíč of Kroměříž / Johannes Milicius de Cremsier – shelf mark VI.D.3 and Jacobus de Voragine – VI.D.7) and various writings of the Church Fathers; legal writings are represented by the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, and hagiographic literature by one of the copies of the Golden Legend (Legenda aurea). Two volumes include German-language texts: Rechtssumme by the Dominican Berthold, also known as Berthold of Freiburg (XVI.C.41), and a collection containing, among others, Buch der Liebkosung by Johannes von Neumarkt / Noviforensis (a translation of the pseudo-Augustinian Liber soliloquiorum). A larger group is represented by Czech-language manuscripts of the 15th century. These are mainly legal, moral-educational and meditative texts, with the exception being a collection of hymns of Holy Week antiphonary and missal (XVII.F.3). The last group comprises five volumes deposited under the shelf mark XXIII. These are books from the former Prague Lobkowicz library and most of them were part of the library of the Premonstratensian monastery in Weissenau in the Middle Ages (e.g. a commentary on the Book of Psalms – XXIII.E.48; the collection of sermons by Gaufridus Babio and other authors – XXIII.E.21 – this codex also includes an incompletely preserved catalogue of the Weissenau library from the 13th century). A manuscript of Czech origin is a collection of the regulations of the Cistercian Order, made for the monastery at Pomuk (XXIII.E.25).

Two manuscripts from the collections of the famous Latin school in Jáchymov were digitised in 2023. The older one is a hymnal (shelf mark LC 2), compiled and mostly also copied by Nikolaus Herman, a teacher at the Jáchymov school. The codex was completed in 1558 and was later expanded with several additions. The second manuscript (LC 77) was written in the 18th century and contains notes from lessons based on the works of Aristotle.

This year’s (2023) digitized books from the Slavonic Library come from the 17th to 19th centuries from regions in present-day Dalmatia (Croatia) and Russia. The oldest book is a printed poetic transcription of the King David’s Psalter from 1678 with 3 prefaces by Symeon of Polotsk, a scholar and clergyman (shelf mark T 8086). From the end of the 18th century comes a manuscript collection of poems and translations of old Croatian authors from the Milan Rešetar collection (shelf mark T 4121). The 19th century is represented with (1) a manuscript description of a monastery in the former town of Voskresensk (current Istra) in the Moscow Region (shelf mark T 4328); and (2) a copy of the life of Peter I by Petr Krekshin from the Alexander Grigorev collection of North Russian manuscripts (shelf mark A 14).

In 2023, the Olomouc Research Library digitised a manuscript containing a part of a German translation of the statutes of the Tertiary Sisters of St Francis in Brno (shelf mark M II 166). The manuscript was written in 1519 and was dedicated to Mother Marta, who was already a member of the Brno convent from 1500 and thus was probably, after the Mother Superior, one of the nuns who had the right to decide on the internal issues of the convent.