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In 2025, the Regional Museum in Teplice digitised three manuscripts containing records of theological lectures given by students from the Cistercian monastery in Osek during their studies at the Archbishop's Seminary in Prague between 1718 and 1751. Among the lecturers were, for example, Jerome Besnecker, the abbot of Osek, or Benedikt Bayer, the provost of the monastery in Doksany.

In 2025, the Museum of the Brno Region digitised three more medieval manuscripts from the library of the Benedictine Abbey in Rajhrad. All of them date from the beginning of the 15th century from the Czech lands, as evidenced, among other things, by Czech-language glosses. The manuscripts include collections of sermons (shelf numbers R 372, R 382) and an interpretation of the Gospel of St John by Nicholas of Gorran (R 375).

In 2025, the National Museum Library provided online access to the summer part of the Minorite antiphonary of Czech origin (shelf number XV A 1). The manuscript is dated to the period around 1380 on the basis of its decoration, and the oficium for the feast of St Wenceslas, which is recorded in it, represents one of the basic sources for understanding its medieval form in the context of the Minorite Order.

A martyrology from the first half of the 14th century (shelf number M II 100) was digitised from the collections of the Olomouc Research Library in 2025. The manuscript was probably intended for a monastery of the Minorite order and, according to the obituary inscriptions in the margins of the pages, was certainly used in the Czech environment in the Middle Ages, perhaps in Olomouc, where it is evidenced in the 15th century.