Petr Píša
The second part of the Dvůr Králové manuscript and its discoverer Antonín Pfleger Kopidlanský
This paper presents an analysis of the memoirs of Antonín Pflegr (1811–1896), who was literarily active under the name of Kopidlanský, which claimed that in 1821, when he was ten years old he found in a cell in the Dvůr Králové decanal church tower a parchment strip belonging to the Dvůr Králové manuscript, which he later presented to Václav Hanka. Pfleger's parchment strip discovery is interpreted as proof of the early worship of the place in which the manuscripts were found, which started to play the role of a Czech national history heritage site. This paper refers to the ongoing institutionalization and collectivization involved in commemoration of the site on which the manuscript was allegedly discovered and the decline in this tradition at a local level after the main wave of disputes over the authenticity of the manuscripts had passed over.
Key words: Dvůr Králové manuscript – Antonín Pfleger Kopidlanský – Dvůr Králové nad Labem
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