The collection of early printed books in the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec contains a set of 69 books from the library of the Strialius family from Žatec. The members of this family Jan and Bohuslav Strialius were among important figures of the second half of the 16th century. The originally…

The aim of the treatise is to summarise in an informative overview all known printed books with ownership bookbindings of the bishop of Olomouc Stanislav II Pavlovský (+1598) preserved in the CzechRepublic. It leaves aside manuscripts and official books. It pays particular attention to Pavlovský’s…

The work deals with two crucial acquisitions of the Ethnographic Museum and Gallery in Česká Lípa that come from collectors of art objects and books whose lives were closely connected with the Česká Lípa region. The first acquisition is a donation by a significant Česká Lípa entrepreneur and private…

The historical collections of the Moravian Library in Brno contain the original chateau library of the family Kübeck von Kübau from Lechovice in the Znojmo region. The family, which was knighted at the beginning of the 19th century, owned the chateau and the estate in Lechovice until the end of the…

In the Gradual of Sixtus of Ottersdorf, deposited in the British Library in London (Add. 16175), there is a miniature of an elephant with triumphant trophies on its back. The commemorative inscription attached to the figure of the elephant identifies it as the life elephant that was part of the…