Peasant and peasant’s wife, noblemen, citizens, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Casimir the Great, Hedwig of Anjou, Wladislaw Jagello, Wladislaw, Duke of Opole.
Nos. 1 and 2 – Peasant and peasant woman from the surroundings of Krakow in working clothes. After a painting from the 14th century in Krakow Cathedral.
No. 3 – Nobleman of the second half of the 14th century. According to a Czech chronicle in Pulkawa. No. 4 – Nobleman of the same time. After a painting in the cathedral of Krakow. No. 5 and 6 – Citizen and nobleman. 1333-1434. After a painting in the cathedral of Krakow. No. 7 – Peasant from the Masovian Palatinate. No. 8 – Grand Master of the German Order. No. 9 – Casimir the Great, King of Poland died 1370, the last of the Piast dynasty. After the statue of his tomb in Krakow Cathedral. No. 10 – Hedwig of Anjou, Queen of Poland 1384, wife of Wladislaw Jagello, Grand Duke of Lithuania. After an impression of a seal. No. 11 – Wladislaw Jagello, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, died 1434, after his tomb statue in Krakow Cathedral. No. 12 – Wladislaw, Duke of Opole, Palatine of Hungary, from the dynasty of the Plasts. After a seal impression from the year 1378. Princely armour of occidental origin.
According to Matejko, Ubiory Polsce (Polish Costumes) 1200-1795. Krakow 1860 (2nd ed. 1875).
Source: History of Costume in Chronological Development by Auguste Racinet. Edited by Adolf Rosenberg. Berlin 1888.
