The originally Irish family of Counts Wallis acquired two chateaux in Moravia, Moravské Budějovice and Budíškovice, where libraries have been preserved. The smaller library from Moravské Budějovice (3,000 volumes) comprises fiction, history, and the later part of the collection from the 19th century…

The article on the incomplete library of Jan Neruda, comprising 2,493 items (with the individual items frequently containing several volumes) is the first to deal in more detail with its thematic and authorial composition as well as with further provenance marks which make it possible to identify…

Antonín Pikhart, a trained lawyer, was an important culturally-active figure at the turn of the 20th century. A particularly notable achievement of his from the literary-historical perspective was that he laid the foundations of Czech systematic translation from Spanish, Catalan and to a lesser…

The article describes the fates of three owners of the evangelical songbook Cithara sanctorum, which was, as a family heirloom, handed down in the evangelical Molnár family. The first owner was the Hořátev minister Jan Molnár, son of the minister Péter Molnár, who had come to Bohemia from Hungary…

The National Museum Library purchased books of Ladislav Jan Živný (1872–1949) along with the original furniture at the end of the 1940s. Živný was originally a secondary-school teacher; he achieved the most in the fields of librarianship and bibliography. He travelled mainly over Western Europe,…

The priest Josef Hausmann Hořínský (1825–1905) published in Časopis Musea Království Českého [Journal of the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia] in 1849 the treatise O literatuře španělské, zwláště dramatické [On Spanish, in Particular Dramatic, Literature], which is the first Czech summary of the…