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In 2025, the National Technical Library provided access to seven manuscripts from the last third of the 18th to the second half of the 19th century. The oldest of these is F. J. Höfler's treatise Ob die Erziehung oder der moralische Charakter einer Nation für das erste Grundgesetz aller Staaten angenommen werden könne from 1770 (St 182), the lecture notes of Johann Friedrich August Göttling and Franz Anton Herget, František Josef Gerstner's Bericht über den Zustand der Elbeschiff-Fahrt im Jahre 1822 ( St 428), a report on the London Industrial Exhibition of 1851 and student calculations.

In 2025, the Regional Museum and Gallery in Most digitised six modern manuscripts.Most of them are German-language prayer books from the 18th century, but this classification of contents is not matched by the collection of medical and cooking advice and recipes (118/Ruk) and the collection of sermons, provincial regulations and other documents of the Franciscan Order, compiled in 1743 by the provincial Matthias Kollnberger.

Three manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries were digitised from the collections of the Museum and Gallery in Prostějov in 2025. These are copies of the play Čech a Němec aneb Mlejn na hranicích (Br 100) by Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, and play Jan Dolinský aneb Krevní právo (Br 103) by Emanuel Schikaneder, and a German-language prayer book (Br 119).

The Cosmography of Claudius Ptolemy was digitized from the collection of books of the Latin School in Jáchymov in 2025. The incunabula were printed in Ulm in 1486 by Johann Reger for the publisher Justus de Albano. The edition also contains 32 woodcut map plates, which have been coloured in this copy; the initials have a simple colour decoration. Manuscript marginalia show the use of printing in the 16th century. The book was donated to the Jáchymov library in 1580 by Jiří Hohreuter.