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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.

In 2025, the library of the Premonstratensian Canonry in Nová Říše made four more manuscripts available online. The oldest of these is a part of the Bible dating from around the second half of the 13th century (NŘ 68). Two other codices, based on the language of the texts or annotations, originate from a German-speaking environment: a collection of sermons and legends, NŘ 16, dating from around the second quarter of the 15th century, and a legal compendium, NŘ 84, dating from around the third quarter of the 15th century. The collection of theological and meditative texts NŘ 30, dated 1475, is of Czech origin.

In 2025, the digitization of manuscripts of the collector and mercantilist Jan Kryštof Bořek (DC I 7, DD I 1-7, and DE I 1-5) from the collections of the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov – Strahov Library was completed. This is the third edition of his collection of documents, which was compiled from the end of the second decade of the 18th century to the end of the 1720s. The individual volumes contain various reports relating to both the past of the Czech lands and Bořek's present – often copies of official documents related to his official and economic activities. The last volume (DE I 5) contains an incomplete index for the entire collection.