Baskets in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Following are depictions of baskets, used for carrying different sorts of goods. I've attempted to organize them by function. See these links on basketry for additional articles on this subject.

• Wool clothing (fol. 94v) and silk clothing (fol. 95), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Linen clothing, Tacuinum Sanitatis, 15th century
• Linen clothing, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 103v), 15th century
• Madonna of the Basket by Correggio, c. 1524
• Sacred Conversation by Cariani, 1524-30
• The Holy Family by Crispin van den Broeck, 16th century

• The vocation of Gideon, The Psalter of St. Louis (BNF Latin 10525, fol. 49v), c. 1258-1270
• August (fol. 11) and the miracle of St. Anthony of Padua (fol. 187v), The Hours of Anne of Brittany (BNF Lat. 9474), c. 1503-1508

Canistrum is a basket or a frayel y made of white persch ouer of reed and serue to do Inne. De proprietatibus rerum, British Library MS Add 27944, 1398

• A bakery in a 15th century Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 62v)
• Onions, Libro de componere herbe et fructi (BNF It. 1108, fol. 55v), c. 1471
• Marketplace frescoes at Issogne, late 15th-early 16th century (detail)
• Many of Les Cris de Paris, c. 1500, including sellers of turnips, herrings, glassware, scrap metal, turnips, and milk
• Christ and the Adulteress by Pieter Aertsen, 1559
• Cook in front of the stove by Pieter Aertsen, 1559
• Market Scene by Pieter Aertsen, 1561
• Market woman with fruit, vegetables, and poultry (detail) by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1564
• Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1565
• The Vegetable Market by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1567
• The Four Elements: Air, Fire, Earth, and Water by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1569-1570
• Vegetable Seller by Joachim Beuckelaer
• Woman selling vegetables by Joachim Beuckelaer
• The Flight into Egypt by Joachim Beuckelaer
• Market Scene (detail) by Joachim Beuckelaer
• The Cook by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1574
• The Fruit Seller by Vincenzo Campi, 1580

• Poultry (fol. 68v) and and pigeons (fol. 69v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Marketplace in Le Chevalier errant (BNF Fr. 12559, fol. 167), c. 1400-1405
• Doves, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 65), 15th century
• Christ and the Adulteress by Pieter Aertsen, 1559
• Poultry Market by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1564
• Market scene by Pieter Aertsen
• The Four Elements: Air by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1570

• September, Martyrologium (BNF Lat. 12834, fol. 69v), c. 1266-1279
• Philip of Macedonia and the peasants of Mora, Florimont (BNF Fr. 792, fol. 3), end of the 13th century

On the morwen, hwan it was day, He stirt up sone and nouth ne lay, And cast a panier on his bac, With fish giveled als a stac. Havelock the Dane, ll. 812-815, c. 1300

• Hell Bible (BNF Fr. 13096, fol. 86), 1313
• Man and his treasure, Kalila va Dimna (BNF Lat. 8504, fol. 10), 1313
• Parisian pontiffs and their messengers (BNF Fr. 2091, fol. 115) and St. Denis in front of Fescennius (BNF Fr. 2092, fol. 35v), The Life of St. Denis, 1317
• Fauvel's wedding celebration, The Romance of Fauvel (BNF Fr. 146, fol. 36v), c. 1320
• Noah carries animals onto the Ark (fol. 7v) and after the Flood (fol. 9), The Holkham Bible (British Library MS Add. 47680), c. 1327-1335
• Leeks (fol. 24), spinach (fol. 26v), cabbage (fol. 27v), turnips (fol. 43), and salted meats (fol. 66), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF NAL 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Leeks (fol. 22), turnips (fol. 50), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• Romans in their city, Ab urbe condita (BNF Fr. 260, fol. 166), first quarter of the 15th century
• October in the Rohan Hours (BNF Latin 9471, fol. 14v), 1430
• A baker, Hofämterspiel, c. 1450
• Boccaccio and the prideful, De casibus (BNF 230, fol. 34v), third quarter of the 15th century
• Borders in Froissart's Chronicles, second half of the 15th century: BNF Fr. 2643, fol. 226v, and BNF Fr. 2644, fol. 135
• Siege of Cyzicus, Speculum Historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 169v), 1463
• Turnip merchant, Libro de componere herbe et fructi (BNF It. 1108, fol. 61), c. 1471
• Campania, Secrets of natural history (BNF Fr. 22971, fol. 11), c. 1480-1485
• March, The Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
• A lantern-seller in Les Cris de Paris, c. 1500
• The Wayfarer, c. 1490; outer wings of the Haywain Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, 1500-1502
• September in a book of hours (MMW 10 F 14), c. 1500-1525
• October in the Da Costa Hours, c. 1515
• Gold mining, The book of simple medicines (BNF Fr. 12322, fol. 168), c. 1520-1530
• Polishing armor, New discoveries; the sciences, inventions, and discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as represented in 24 engravings issued in the early 1580's by Stradanus
• How wine is transported in Bologna, Album Amicorum of a German Soldier (LACMA M.91.71.30), 1595

• Cabbage (also here, fol. 20), capers (fol. 21v), spinach (fol. 24v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• Detail from the August fresco at Castello Buonconsiglio, 1405-1410
• The Senate, Ad urbe condita (BNF Fr. 262, fol. 3), first quarter of the 15th century

A vekke Old me dyde espye, Komyng with an owgly cher, Vp-on hyr hed, a gret paner. Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, British Library Stowe 952, c. 1430

• Detail of a peasant woman carrying eggs in The Nativity by Robert Campin, 1425
• Boccaccio and the proud, De casibus (BNF 230, fol. 34v), third quarter of the 15th century
• A peasant woman transports eggs in a basket on her head, and more goods in a handbasket, Armorial de Revel (BNF Fr. 22997, fol. 344), 1456
• Spinach, Libro de componere herbe et fructi (BNF It. 1108, fol. 55), c. 1471
• Campania, Secrets of natural history (BNF Fr. 22971, fol. 11), c. 1480-1485
• The capture of Pontoise, The Vigils of Charles VII (BNF Fr. 5054, fol. 91v), 1484
• The herring-seller in Les Cris de Paris, c. 1500
• August, The Hennessey Hours, c. 1530-1540

• A woman with a basket, in a medical miscellany (St. John's College MS D.24, fol. 23r), 13th century
• Noah tends his vines, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève MS 1212), c. 1275-1299
• Chestnuts (fol. 11), nutmeg (fol. 12v), olives (fol. 14v), dates (fol. 17v), pyrethrum (fol. 21), arugula (fol. 21v), beets (fol. 27), parsley (fol. 31), coliander (fol. 31v), broad beans (fol. 44), beans (fol. 44v), and lentils (fol. 45), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673), c. 1390-1400
• Presentation in the Temple and Flight to Egypt (detail) by Melchior Broederlam, 1393-1399
• The Garden of Eden (detail), c. 1410
• Tart apples (fol. 6), blackberries (fol. 7), sour cherries (fol. 9), jujubes (fol. 12v), black olives (fol. 13v), bananas (fol. 17v), cabbages (fol. 20), capers (fol. 21v), asparagus (fol. 23v), beets (fol. 24v), truffles (fol. 25v), celery (fol. 27), dill (fol. 29), mint (fol. 31), horehound (fol. 33v), sage (fol. 34v), saffron (fol. 37v), fennel (fol. 38v), panicum (fol. 46), chickpeas (fol. 47), beans (fol. 48v), chickens (fol. 63), chicken eggs (fol. 63v), goose eggs (fol. 64), doves (fol. 65), and rosewater (fol. 90), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• Apples (fol. 6), olives (fol. 13v), and cabbage (fol. 20), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• Rest during the Flight to Egypt by Gentile da Fabriano, 1423
• Border, The Hours of Margaret of Orleans (BNF Lat. 1156 B, fol. 135), c. 1426
• October in the Rohan Hours (BNF Latin 9471, fol. 14v), 1430
• St. Dorothea of Caesarea in a book of hours (KB 79 K 2, fol. 130v), c. 1430-1450
• The pillage of the camp of Darius III, The History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 20311, fol. 68v), third quarter of the 15th century
• St. Dorothy by the Master of Koudewater, c. 1470
• The grain and wine market, The City of God (MMW 10 A 11), c. 1475-1480
• The Holy Family by Martin Schongauer, c. 1475-1480
• Pears in the Liber de proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 9140, fol. 361v), 1480
• St. Dorothea of Caesarea from a book of hours (KB 135 J 10, fol. 138v), c. 1480-1490
• The capture of Pontoise, The Vigils of Charles VII (BNF Fr. 5054, fol. 91v), 1484
• Virgin and Child with Sts. John the Baptist and Verdiana, 1490s
• A boy collects wood-shavings in a basket while a joiner works, Les États de la société (BNF Fr. 2374, fol. 1v), end of the 15th century
• Lot fleeing with his daughters from Sodom by Albrecht Drer, c. 1498
• Marriage of St. Catherine, c. 1500
• Acts of Charity (?), early 16th century
• July and October in the Da Costa Hours, c. 1515
• The Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1516
• Vertumnus and Pomona (detail) by Jacopo Pontormo, 1519-1521
• St. Dorothy with the Basket of Flowers by Matthias Grnewald, c. 1520
• The October and November sections of the Augsburger Monatsbilder, 1520s
• Sulfur mining, The Book of Simple Medicines (BNF Fr. 12322, fol. 193v), c. 1520-1530
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1520-1540
• The Corn Harvest by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
• Ancilla Svevica prodiens in forum, Rustica sive Hortulana Argentoratensis, and Rustica Mulier Gallica, from Habitus praecipuorum populorum tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti, 1577
• Peasant woman from outskirts of Venice as seen in town on Ascension Day, Peasant woman from the Treviso area, and Peasant woman from Cividale from De gli Habiti antichi et moderni di Diverse Parti del Mondo, 1590

• Cabbage, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 29), c. 1390-1400
• Sweet melons (fol. 18), gourds (fol. 19v), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• The Adoration of the Magi (a one-handled basket) c. 1420
• Border, The Hours of Margaret of Orleans (BNF Lat. 1156 B, fol. 135), c. 1426
• Large baskets used for toting grapes in a vineyard, September, The Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
• Detail from a tapestry woven in the Netherlands in the first quarter of the 16th century
• Madonna and Child with the Milk Soup by Gerard David, c. 1520
• Virgil suspended in a basket by Lucas van Leyden, 1525
• Rural scene by Marten van Cleve, 1527
• Family Portrait by Maerten van Heemskerck, c. 1530
• October in the Hennessy Hours, c. 1530-1540

• Baskets, Le Régime du corps (British Library MS Sloane 2435, fol. 68), c. 1285
• A seed-sower in the Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130, fol. 170v), c. 1325-1335
• Gourds, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 36v), c. 1390-1400
• A 15th century lidded basket
• St. Dorothy, 1410-1420
• Sour pomegranates (fol. 4v), citrons (fol. 8), lettuce (fol. 26), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
• St. Mary Magdalene and St. Dorothea of Caesarea in a prayerbook (KB 71 G 53, fol. 93v), c. 1500-1510
• Rest on the Flight to Egypt by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1510
• Portrait of a woman with a basket of spindles by Andrea del Sarto, 1517 (or Jacopo Pontormo?)
• Boy with a basket of fruit (detail) by Caravaggio, c. 1593
• Basket of fruit by Caravaggio, c. 1597