Manuscriptorium

The collection that has been newly made accessible consists of only six manuscripts from the National Library of the CR, most of which came to its holdings from the Lobkowicz library. Three codices represent sermonic literature; another is a German translation of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The last two manuscripts contain i.a. important sources on the history of the Augustinian monastery in Třeboň (XIV.G.17) and a collection of religious files and decrees from the beginning of the 17th century (XVII.A.16).

Newly digitised documents are a varied assortment in terms of both their thematic focus and the place of their current deposition. The manuscripts of the National Library of the CR are dominated by theological and sermonic works (i.a. two postils by John of Rokycany and Czech Sunday Postil by John Hus). A Bohemica sermon collection has been made accessible also from the collections of the Education and Research Library of the Pilsener Region.

Four documents from the collections of the Museum and Gallery of National History and Geography in Česká Lípa have been digitised, namely one manuscript and three early printed books or their binders’ volumes. Manuscript ST 795 contains a Latin grammar of Upper Sorbian, compiled by Jan Jurij Prokop Hanschke, to which also the printed work Principia linguae Wendicae by Jacobus Xaverius Ticinus is thematically related. The other printed books contain grammar treatises written for instruction at Augustinian order studies.

The newly digitised documents come from the collections of the Music Department of the National Library of the CR. With some exceptions, they are the records of the works of important authors active in the second half of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century (Jiří Ignác Linek (Linka), Václav Jan Kopřiva, Jakub Jan Ryba, Josef Mysliveček, Vincenc Mašek, František Xaver Brixi).