The collection was later moved several times and stayed outside Croatia for many years, but was finally bought in 1892 in Vienna and brought to Zagreb, where it is situated until now, largely preserved, in the Croatian National and University Library.

The catalogue was named Catalogus omnium librorum bibliothecae Chaktorniensis excellentissimi atque illustrissimi domini comitis Nicolai a Zrinio bani.

Anno Domini 1662. die 10 octobris[4] (translated: "Catalogue of all books in the Čakovec library of the distinguished and illustrious Count Nikola Zrinski, Banus.

[7] Since Adam Zrinski was shot in 1691 in the Battle of Slankamen, his widow Maria Katarina née Lamberg remarried Count Maximilian Arnošt II Vlašim from Moravian Vöttau (Bitov in today's Czech Republic).

Today's inventory includes 424 so-called signature marks, exclusively printed books, i.e. excluding the 29 manuscripts found under separate call numbers.

[12] According to recent, long-term research, Croatian and Hungarian librarians and historians have concluded that the entire stock of books in the Bibliotheca Zriniana includes 731 library units.

), then some copies of the Bible, the works of the Italian late medieval writers (Ludovico Ariosto, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca), as well as writers from other countries (such as Francis Bacon or Laurentius Beyerlinck) alongside local authors (Nikola Zrinski with his "Siren of the Adriatic Sea", Katarina Zrinski with her “Putni tovaruš” (Travel Companion), Franjo Črnko with the “Siege of the City of Sigetvar”, Franjo Glavinić with the “Story of Trsat”, Mavro Orbini with the “Kingdom of the Slavs”, etc.).