The article presents a manuscript collection of texts of evangelical provenance that has recently been purchased in a German second-hand bookshop. According to a chronogram, this manuscript is likely to come from 1840. The manuscript consists of fifteen relatively independent text sections thematically related to the denominational controversies before and after the battle of White Mountain. The paper examines possible printed or manuscript models of individual parts and as well as their reflection in both earlier and more recent bibliographic literature. and David Mach.
The library of the chateau in Strážnice contains a binder’s volume of 25 German printed books from the 16th century, three of which may be considered as unique. Several of them were owned by the famous Lutheran theologian Matthias Flacius Illyricus, who gave them to his fellow believers, Erasmus Minckwitz von Minckwitzburg and Nicolaus von Ansdorf. and Petr Mašek.