My name is Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz and I am delighted to be joining the RFB team from 1 October for a year, standing in for Caecilia Hein, who will be absent during this period.

The RFB holds more than 100,000 printed works and manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

From 7 October, the Palace Church will take centre stage as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of its designation as a World Heritage Site. We are therefore delighted to invite you to the event ‘Palace History(ies)’ at 6 pm on that day.

Marta Vaculínová, PhD, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)

Project: Exiles from the Bohemian lands in Wittenberg during the Thirty Years’ War

Over the past few weeks, we have been able to expand our collection of older items. We have received, as a gift, a prayer book by the author M.