| Figures | ||
| 1 | The oldest woodcut picture of Krakow, Kazimierz and Kleparz, by Hartmann Schedl, Liber Cronicarum (1493) | 353 |
| 2 | Map of Wacław Grodecki (1535–1591). It was included in the first modern world atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570 (1579) in Antwerp. “Cracovia” is depicted in the lower left corner of the map, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Jakub Wojkowski, CARTOGRAPHIA CRACOVIANA: Krakow i okolice na dawnych mapach — geoportal. Krakow: Uniwersytet Rolniczy w Krakowie, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Geodezji, 2020. dawnemapykrakowa.p | l354 |
| 3 | Plan of the city of Krakow by Filip Lichocki, issued in 1787. The plan includes Krakow within the walls, together with Wawel hill, Stradom, Kazimierz and a fragment of Podgórze (called Jozefstadt at that time). Jakub Wojkowski, CARTOGRAPHIA CRACOVIANA: Krakow i okolice na dawnych mapach — geoportal. Krakow: Uniwersytet Rolniczy w Krakowie, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Geodezji, 2020 dawnemapykrakowa.pl | 355 |
| 4 | Document of foundation as a ‘testament,’ issued by knight Zbylut for the Cistercian monastery in Łekno in 1153. State Archive of Poznan, Cystersi Łekno, sygn kl. Łekno D1 | 356 |
| 5 | Will of Paszko vel Paulino Cavallo (1358), a Genoese-born councillor in Krakow and administrator of the Bochnia salt mines. National Archives in Krakow, Scabinalia Cracoviensia, 1300–1375, ms. no. 1, fol. 203. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 357 |
| 6 | Will of Nicholas Dambraw (1395), councilor of Krakow. Card with a will was pasted between the pages of the bench book. National Archives in Krakow, Scabinalia Cracoviensia, 1390–1397, ms. no. 3, fol. 188b. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 358 |
| 7 | Will and mutual bequest of Henry Woger and his wife Ursula (1400). National Archives in Krakow, Consularia Cracoviensia, 1392–1411, ms. no. 427, fol. 151. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 359 |
| 8 | Will of Michaelis of Nowa Wieś (Neudorff) (1418). National Archives in Krakow, Consularia Cracoviensia, 1412–1449, ms. no. 428, fol. 126. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 360 |
| 9 | Will of Dorothy, widow of Little Jelge (1430). National Archives in Krakow, Scabinalia Cracoviensia, 1419–1430, ms. no. 5, fol. 210. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 361 |
| 10 | Will of Johannes Stolle of Głogów, the municipal notary (1451). National Archives in Krakow, Consularia Cracoviensia, 1459–1483, ms. no. 429, fol. 28–29. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 362 |
| 11 | Will of Barbara Putkinne (1456) and the first part of the will of John Swidniczer (1457), from Liber Testamentorum. National Archives in Krakow, Consularia Cracoviensia, 1427–1623, ms. no. 772, fol. 38–39. Photo: Malopolska Digital Library http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra | 363 |
| Graphs | ||
| 1 | Number of extant wills from various sources from 1300 to 1550, by decade | 104 |
| 2 | Number of wills per type of book from 1427 to 1476, taking into account the assets of testators | 107 |
| 3 | Number of testators whose wills have survived to the present day and of those whose wills are only mentioned in the source material | 108 |
| 4 | Wills and other types of donations and dispositions | 112 |
| 5 | Wills made in each decade of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 113 |
| 6 | Representatives of the municipal authorities among known Krakovian testators in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 127 |
| 7 | Number of councillors and aldermen among known Krakovian testators in particular decades of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 127 |
| 8 | Estimates of the wealth of the 25% of all testators who included dowers in their wills | 164 |
| 9 | Estimates of the wealth of all testators based on indirect information | 164 |
| 10 | Changes in the wealth of testators in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 166 |
| 11 | Asset structure of female testators | 166 |
| 12 | Asset structure of all testators | 167 |
| 13 | Number of women and men among all Krakow testators in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 174 |
| 14 | The amount bequeathed in dowers in the wills of Krakow’s councillors | 186 |
| 15 | Amounts of dowers contained in the wills made by Krakow councillors and the wealthiest non-councillor Krakow’s citizens | 188 |
| 16 | The number of testators who made wills before going on a pilgrimage | 321 |
| Tables | ||
| 1 | Records of mortis causa in Krakow sources from the years 1300–1500 | 8 |
| 2 | Occupations of Krakovian testators in the years 1300–1500 | 133 |
| 3 | Estimated distribution of the three social strata in Rostock, Stralsund, Lübeck, Wrocław, Torun, and Elblag | 156 |
| 4 | Dower records in Krakow wills | 161 |
| 5 | The number of women and men among Krakow testators in the years 1431–1470 | 174 |
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