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Jun

Prayer Books from the Regional Museum in Louny

In 2023, the Regional Museum in Louny provided access to a homogeneous collection of four prayer books from the years 1800–1837. The oldest of them (shelf mark S 6460) is written German, the others in Czech. Two of them (shelf marks S 6229 and S 6458) were written by Václav Bulánek, a teacher in Kralovice, who also copied a similar manuscript, which is now deposited in the Prácheň Museum in Písek under the shelf mark L 157 950. All of these codices are decorated with simple hand-coloured pen-and-ink drawings.

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Jun

Manuscripts from the National Museum Library - Nostitz Library

In 2023, three volumes were digitised from the collections of the Nostic Library, administered by the National Museum Library. The oldest of them is an illuminated Bible of Bolognese origin from the end of the 13th century (shelf mark Ms f 15). The binder’s volume from the turn of the 15th century placed under the shelf mark Ms c 39 contains the provincial statutes of the archdiocese of Gniezno from 1420, the incomplete Legend of the Three Kings by John of Hildesheim, and the first review of the Chronicle of Bohemia by Přibík Pulkava of Radenín. The last digitised codex is a martial arts manual (Fechtbuch) from 1618 (shelf mark Ms b 3).

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Jun

Printed Books from the National Technical Library

In 2023, the National Technical Library provided access to one manuscript and a set of seven German-language printed books from the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The manuscript (shelf mark C 1175) dates from about 1761, bears the title Clavis artis and contains alchemical instructions attributed to Zoroaster. Under the shelf mark B 100, there is a set of engravings accompanying three text volumes of Der praktische Baubeamte, printed in Vienna in approximately 1797–1798. The other printed books come mainly from Germany and deal with various branches of industry and trade.

13
Jun

Modern Manuscripts from the Town Museum and Gallery Polička

Two modern manuscripts from the collections of the Town Museum and Gallery Polička were digitised in 2023. The older of the two contains Poručenství dvanácti patriarchů [Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs] and the story of Joseph and Asenath; the codex was written in the 17th century, probably as a copy of a printed book (shelf mark K 30). The collection K 74 was written in the 1830s and contains a number of copies of 17th-century Czech Protestant printed books.

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