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In 2022, the Military History Institute Prague digitised another 31 items, including manuscripts mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries and Emil Kaňovský’s notebook of lectures at the NCO school in Great Britain from 1942. Most of the manuscripts made available are treatises on training, military and fortification theory, lecture notes and textbooks in various fields. Nevertheless, they also include, for example, overviews of the state of the army and its structure (shelf marks IIR A 360 and IIR A 489) or a drawn set of nautical flags and other symbols (IIR B 1343).

The Slavic Library has digitised two manuscripts from the collection of the Ragusiana of Milan Rešetar: a manuscript collection of poems (shelf mark T 342) and an incomplete collection with excerpts from various texts by several authors (shelf mark T 399). Both volumes come from the end of the 17th century and are accompanied by drawings.

The Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region digitised one manuscript and two early printed books in 2022. The manuscript Rk 110 – a Czech prayer book – was written in the second half of the 18th century. The early printed books contain various editions of the prayers of the Capuchin Martin of Cochem. The collection Der grosse Myrrhen-Garten (shelf mark S 109) was printed in Cologne in 1694; the Czech collection Zlatý nebeský klíč [The Golden Key of Heaven] (JK 2498) was published in Jindřichův Hradec around 1760.

An important educational institution founded in the 16th century – the Latin town school in Jáchymov – has provided access to a manuscript of a sheet-music antiphonary with additional texts (shelf mark LC 3). The scribe and perhaps also the compiler of the codex was the teacher and composer Nikolaus Herman, who worked in Jáchymov for more than 40 years. Most of the manuscript was probably written in 1553.