Prints from the Regional Museum in Mikulov

Prints from the Regional Museum in Mikulov

   Updates    9. 10. 2025  |  0

In 2025, the Regional Museum in Mikulov made 25 prints from its collection available online. The vast majority of these are incunabula from the former Dietrichstein Library in Mikulov. In terms of content, they are mainly legal and theological texts and sermons, but also works by ancient authors, which were also used for university teaching. The collection includes printed works from a number of important centers of the late 15th century, including Venice in Italy, Lyon and Strasbourg in France, and Leipzig, Cologne, Speyer, Nürnberg, and Basel in what is now Germany and Switzerland. Some volumes contain older ownership records documenting acquisitions by the Dietrichstein library. Among the known former owners are, for example, the books of physician Jeroným Münzer and imperial councilor Ferdinand Hoffmann of Grünbüchl and Střechov. The only younger print is a new acquisition of the museum collections, the Venetian print of Francesco Barozzi’s Cosmography from 1585 (MIK 3139), which belonged to the library of the physician Jakub Konrad Praetorius of Perlenberk.

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