Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora

Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora

The Manuscript of Dvůr Králové (Czech: Rukopis královédvorský, RK, German: Königinhofer Handschrift) and the Manuscript of Zelená Hora (Czech: Rukopis zelenohorský, RZ, German: Grünberger Handschrift, also called The Judgement of Lubussa, LS, Czech: Libušin soud), collectively abbreviated as RKZ, are epic Slavic manuscripts, claimed to have been discovered in Bohemia in 1817, by Václav Hanka in Dvůr Králové nad Labem and by Josef Kovář in Grünberg Castle or Chateau Zelená Hora (Green Mountain) respectively.

There was an ongoing struggle, because too many insisted that these are genuine, while they were later determined to be forgeries. The debate over the authenticity of these manuscripts has occupied Czech politics for more than a century, with Tomáš Masaryk taking an early position against the authenticity of the papers. Pan-Slavic nationalists on the other hand, saw in the manuscripts a symbol of national conscience and historians such as František Palacký based historical accounts of Bohemia and the Czechs exclusive claims on Bohemia on these proven forged Czech accounts.

Further reading

  • Lass, Andrew (1988). "Romantic Documents and Political Monuments: The Meaning-Fulfillment of History in 19th-Century Czech Nationalism". American Ethnologist 15 (3): 456–471. doi:10.1525/ae.1988.15.3.02a00030. 
  • Die ältesten Denkmäler der böhmischen Sprache, Prag 1840, [1]
  • Václav Hanka, Josef Linda: Manuscript of the Queen's Court: A Collection of Old Bohemian Lyrico-epic ..., 1852 [2]
  • Albert Henry Wratislaw: The Queen's Court Manuscript, with Other Ancient Bohemian Poems., 1852, [3]

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