The Mainz Merlon Mystery

[Bernd]

Upon further research, I believe that the city depicted is an imaginary general depiction of a european city that does not exist but inspired by a combination of cities such as Lyon. To be used in depictions of many cities which cuts the costs and production time. The swallow tail merlons are added next to other merlon styles to make it suitable for more cities. Cheeky but that is my guess.

Medieval AI slop. Looks like the entire chronicle was clickbait

The author of the text, Hartmann Schedel, was a medical doctor, humanist, and book collector. He earned a doctorate in medicine in Padua in 1466, then settled in Nuremberg to practice medicine and collect books. According to an inventory done in 1498, Schedel's personal library contained 370 manuscripts and 670 printed books. The author used passages from the classical and medieval works in this collection to compose the text of the chronicle. He borrowed most frequently from another humanist chronicle, the Supplementum Chronicarum by Giacomo Filippo Foresti of Bergamo. It has been estimated that about 90% of the text is pieced together from works on humanities, science, philosophy, and theology, while about 10% of the chronicle is Schedel's original composition.