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Museum of Prague digitised four manuscripts in 2024. The oldest of them was written at the end of the 14th century (signature H 008975) and contains a set of letters dedicated to St Jerome, an interpretation of the Pater noster prayer and an incomplete copy of Guido de Columnis' Historia destructionis Troiae. The others date from the 16th century. At the beginning of the century a missal was copied for the Church of St. Mary before Týn (sign HD 001272), a book of invitations for the Church of St. Vitus, made in the workshop of Jan Táborský from Klokotská Hora (sign H 009261), and a gradual dedicated to the Church of St. Lawrence under Petřín (HD 001270) was written in 1581-1582.

In 2024, the Royal Canonry of the Premonstratensians at Strahov – the Strahov Library enabled the digitisation of the first group of the manuscripts of the collector and mercantilist economist Jan Kryštof Bořek (shelf marks DB I 1–7 and DC I 1–6) from its collections. This is the third redaction of the collection of his documents, which was created from the end of the 1710s (the prefaces to some volumes are dated 1718 and 1719) until the end of the 1720s. The individual volumes contain various reports concerning both the past of the Czech lands and Bořek’s present – they often comprise copies of official documents related to his official and economic activities.

On Tuesday, 5 November 2024, your personal content will be converted into the new version of the catalogue. The personal content created in the old version will not be transferred after this date (read more here)!