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Prayer Book from the Museum of the Bohemian Paradise in Turnov

29. 4. 2024

A Czech manuscript containing, in addition to the usual prayers, an extensive section devoted to saints, including the patron saints of the Czech lands

Codex Manesse

30. 8. 2023

The most comprehensive collection of ballads and epigrammatic poetry in Middle High German

Louka Gradual

23. 8. 2023

Unique evidence of the development of book painting at the turn of the Late Gothic to the Early Renaissance periods

Zábrdovice Gospel Book

17. 7. 2023

One of the oldest illuminated manuscripts in the Czech Republic

Map of Military Operations

14. 11. 2022

Testimony of combat operations in the War of the Austrian Succession

Breviary of Unknown Benedictine Nun

14. 11. 2022

Beautifully decorated breviary of an unknown nun from the Benedictine convent of St. George at Prague Castle

Tausend Jahre Nachbarschaft. Tschechen und Deutsche in Handschriften und alten Drucken – ein Verzeichniss

22. 4. 2022

Codex Vyssegradensis Dalimil-Chronik – ein Fragment der lateinischen Übersetzung Chronik des Konstanzer Konzils von Ulrich Richental Album amicorum des Ottavio Strada Druck, die anlässlich der Hochzeit des bayerischen Herzogs Wilhelm V. mit Renata von Lothringen herausgegeben wurde. Bergkunst Das ist: Gründlicher Bericht von Bergwercken, Fundgruben vnd Metallen

Tausend Jahre Nachbarschaft. Tschechen und Deutsche in Handschriften und alten Drucken

19. 4. 2022

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Lipnice Bible

13. 4. 2022

Our digital library newly allows you to browse through the precious Lipnice Bible. In 2021, 600 years had elapsed since the origin of this biblical manuscript that is today deposited in the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. The Lipnice Bible, whose digitised version has been acquired successfully from the American institution, was created during…
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A Unique Book from Vojvodina, Serbia

13. 4. 2022

Manuscriptorium managed to acquire a unique remainder of the book culture of the Unity of the Brethren from the pre-White Mountain period. It is a partly printed and partly handwritten Czech translation of the work by the French reformer John Calvin Institutio christianae religionis (“Institutes of the Christian Religion“). This book is only the second…
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Manuscriptorium

Manuscriptorium is an international digital library run by the National Library of the Czech Republic. Within long-term projects, a virtual research environment is being developed providing access to digital documents in the sphere of written cultural heritage deposited in memory institutions worldwide (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, historical maps, and others).

These documents are now available in a digital library united interface together with special tools and the virtual environment context.

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