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The Czech Pharmaceutical Museum in Kuks (a centre of Charles University in Prague – the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové) digitised two manuscripts in 2023. The older of them is a copy of the 17th-century work Miracula chimici seu chrisosophiae by Johann Baptist Großschedel von Aicha (shelf mark HK-SR-5). The second manuscript is the register of the General Pharmaceutical Council in Prague (shelf mark sign. HGL, inv. č. 5, kn. 2), which contains records mostly from the years 1823–1826, complemented until the end of the 19th century; these primarily include a list of pharmacies and their owners or operators, as well as a list of the pharmacists who graduated from Charles-Ferdinand University.

In 2023, the Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region provided access to ten manuscripts, chiefly from the last third of the 18th century and the first third of the 19th century. Most of them are Czech and German prayer books, with the exceptions being the Passion from 1713–1714 (shelf mark Rk 148), probably a copy of two printed books by Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, and a set of Marian and other hymns from 1827 (shelf mark Rk 29).

In 2023, the Regional Museum in Teplice digitised a codex containing notes from the lectures of Jeroným Besnecker (1678–1749), a later abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Osek, which he delivered on Aristotle’s treatises on logic, the works De anima and Metaphysics at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Prague in Prague in 1709–1710 (shelf mark Or II 24).

Two modern manuscripts from the collections of the Museum and Gallery in Prostějov were digitised in 2023. The older one dates back to the end of the 17th century and contains copies of official documents from the years 1623–1684 (shelf mark 1644). Not long after its creation, it was certainly deposited in the library of Count Ignác Karel of Šternberk, for whom it had probably been intended from the beginning. The second digitised codex is a prayer book from the late 18th or early 19th century (shelf mark 393/154).