A view of Krakow in the Nuremberg Chronicle

An Exhibition of Polish Memorabilia from the Royal Collection

This view of Kraków was included in Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, which recorded the history of the world up to 1493, the date of publication. In the Latin text the inhabitants are described as hospitable and cultured: the scholar Copernicus was completing his astronomical studies at Kraków University at the time