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- Cat sits with youth standing before fire, calendar (Bodl. 614, fol. 3r), mid-12th century
- A white cat, De medicina ex animalibus (Ashmole 1462, fol. 58v), end of the 12th century
- Cats in initials in a psalter (St. John's College K.30), c. 1190-1200: T (fol. 56r), N (fol. 66v), and T (fol. 131r)
- Cat, Aberdeen Bestiary (fol. 23v), c. 1200
- Cat in the capital of a column at the Church of St. Pelagius in Denkendorf, c. 1200
- Cats in the Ashmole Bestiary (Ashmole 1511, fol. 35v), beginning of the 13th century
- Cat preaching to rats in a psalter (Ashmole 1525, fol. 40r), 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Cats in a bestiary (Bodl. 764, fol. 51r), 2nd quarter of the 13th century
- Drawings of cats in the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt (BNF Fr. 19093, fol. 7v), c. 1230
- Cat, the Harley Bestiary (British Library Harley 4751, fol. 30v), c. 1230-1240
- Cat with a mouse, bestiary (British Library Sloane 3544, fol. 20v), 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Cats in a bestiary (Bodl. 533, fol. 13r), mid-13th century
- A cat eyes a mouse in the border of a bible (Bibl. Mazarine 13, fol. 267v), c. 1270
- A cat with a rat in its mouth, psalter (Douce 118, fol. 134v), end of the 13th century
- Noah's Ark, La Somme le Roi (Bibl. Mazarine 870, fol. 103), 1295
- Female cat carrying a kitten in her mouth toward three dead kittens, Manafi' al-hayawan (PML M.500, fol. 49v), c. 1297-1300
- A cat eats a rat, bestiary (Douce 88, fol. 95r), c. 1300
- A cat watches a rat in a hole, the Ormesby Psalter (Douce 366, fol. 131r), end of the 13th century-c. 1310
- A cat in a snail-shell, book of hours (British Library Stowe 17, fol. 185r), first quarter of the 14th century
- Detail from The Last Supper by Pietro Lorenzetti, c. 1320
- A cat with a mouse in its mouth, psalter (Douce 5, fol. 44r, c. 1320-1330
- A cat plays with a mouse, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 190r), c. 1325-1340
- Tibert the cat waits outside Renart's lair, Romance of Reynard the Fox and Isengrin (Douce 360, fol. 6r), 1339
- A cat listens to a jester play music (fol. 32r) and a woman raises a distaff at a cat (fol. 42r), Voeux du paon (PML G.24), 1345-1355
- A cat can see well during the day or night (fol. 139v) and a cat can be deceived by its reflection (fol. 147v), Concordantiae caritatis (Lilienfeld Stiftsbibliothek 151), c. 1349-1351
- A cat and mouse, Livre des proprietes des choses (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 1029, fol. 255), c. 1350
- Cat, Der Naturen Bloeme (KB KA 16, fol. 64vb), c. 1350
- A cat with a rat in its mouth, Book of Papirius (Rawl. C. 328, fol. 123v), middle of the 14th cenury
- Cheese, Tacuinum Sanitatis (ÖNB 2644, fol. 30r), c. 1370-1400
- Willehalm says farewell to Gyburg, Willehalm (ÖNB 2643, fol. 251r), 1387
- A rat rides on a cat's back (fol. 76v) and another cat (fol. 238), the Pontifical of Guillaume Durand (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 143), before 1390
- Roasting and frying, Tacuinum sanitatis (Casanatense 4182), late 14th century
Thou seydest this, that I was lyk a cat; For whoso wolde senge a cattes skyn, Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his in. And if the cattes skyn be slyk and gay, She wol nat dwelle in house half a day, But forth she wole, er any day be dawed, To shewe hir skyn, and goon a-caterwawed. This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe, I wol renne out, my borel for to shewe.
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, ll. 354-362, in The Canterbury Tales
- Noah boards the Ark, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 159, fol. 13), 14th-15th century
- The devil appears in the form of a cat to St. Dominic of Calerueja, Le Miroir Historial (KB 72 A 24, fol. 313v), c. 1400-1410
- A cat tempted by mice, Blumen der Tugend (ÖNB 13567, fol. 124v), 1411
- A cat tempted by mice, Blumen der Tugend (ÖNB 12819, fol. 130r), first half of the 15th century
- Cats on fols. 3v, 4v, 6v, 36v, 59v, 85r, 125r, 165r, and 172r of the Hours of Charlotte of Savoy (M.1004), c. 1420-1425
- Marginal decoration with a cat and mouse, Missale Romanum (Toulouse 96, fol. 29r), c. 1420-1499
- A cat curls up on bellows on a 15th century misericord
- A cat on a maiolica bowl from Faenza, 15th century
- Ape versus cat in a border from Promptuarium Iuris (Universitätsbibliothek Graz 23, I, fol. 313v), 1429
- A dog glares at a cat (fol. 11v) and another cat (fol. 12r), a book of hours (PML G.9), c. 1435-1455
- A cat with a ball, bestiary (MMW 10 B 25, fol. 24v), c. 1450
- A sitting cat holds a rat, book of hours (Douce 248, fol. 210r), mid-15th century
- A white cat plays the organ, book of hours (Douce 80, fol. 106v), 15th century
- The complaint of Philip of Burgundy, Romance of the Count of Artois (BNF Fr. 11610, fol. 82v), c. 1450-1460
- Omen of the war of the allies, The City of God (BNF Fr. 27, fol. 64v), third quarter of the 15th century
- Door with a cat hole, France, c. 1450-1500
- The herald and his cat (an ocelot? a serval? a jaguar?) in the Procession of the Old King in the Procession of the Magi frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-1460
- Cat, Der Naturen Bloeme (KB 76 E 4, fol. 27vb), c. 1450-1500
- Border from a manuscript of Llull's Llibre de meravelles (BNF Fr. 189, fol. 283), second half of the 15th century
- Omen of the royalty of Tullius, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 288, fol. 31v), second half of the 15th century
- Three sketches of a cat's head, two sketches of a cat's head, sketch of the front of a sitting cat, sketch of a sitting cat and the infant Jesus, by Pisanello, 15th century
- The feast of the peacock, The Book of the Conquests and Deeds of Alexander (Musée du Petit-Palais L.Dut.456, fol. 86v), 15th century
- A cat in a border (fol. 89r) and a cat held by an ape, and another cat chasing a mouse in another border (fol. 94v), a prayerbook (ÖNB 2599), c. 1460-1470
- A jester rides on a cat's back, book of hours (PML M.167, fol. 84r), c. 1465-1475
- A cat licks itself, Livre des Prouffis Champestres et Ruraux (PML M.232, fol. 201v), c. 1470
- A medieval cat plays the psaltery (fol. 62v) and wears a mantle (fol. 109r), a book of hours (PML H.7), c. 1470
- A cat licks its back in a border in a book of hours (PML M.28, fol. 16r), c. 1470
- The spinner and the visitor by Israhel van Meckenem, 15th century
- A cat catches a mouse (fol. 26), an ape gives milk to a cat (fol. 37v), an ape churning butter while a cat laps up milk in a bowl (fol. 39), a book of hours (Bibl. Mazarine 502, fol. 26), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Grima of Galapia learns the news, The Knight Cifar (BNF Espagnol 36, fol. 15v), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Pilate washes his hands, c. 1475-1500
- Sketches of a cat by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480-1485
- A cat with a mouse in its mouth (fol. 33r) and a stretching cat (fol. 409v) in the borders of an antiphonary (Universitätsbibliothek Graz 1), 1481
- The author observes two cats and two mice, Dialogus Creaturarum, 1482
- Sketches of the Virgin and Child with a cat and sketch of the Virgin and Child with a cat and another sketch of the Virgin and Child with a cat by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480
- Detail from The Birth of Mary from an altarpiece at Biertan in Romania, c. 1480-1500
- A cat in the letter L, Kuttenberger Kantionale (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 15501, fol. 68v), 1490
- Santa Francesca Romana Clothed by the Virgin attributed to Antonio da Viterbo the Elder
- Woodcut of a cat and mouse, c. 1500
- A cat carries a mouse in its mouth, a book of hours (PML M.175, fol. 117r), c. 1500
- Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer, 1504
- Misericord of a cat with its feet in a milk-pot, Church of St. Nicholas in Kalkar, c. 1505-1508
- Girl Making a Garland by Hans Süss von Kulmbach
- Penelope with the Suitors by Pintoricchio, c. 1509
- A cat holds up the heraldry of St. Lambrecht and Abbot Johannes Sachs, Breviarium Benedictinum (Universitätsbibliothek Graz 56, III, fol. 148r), 1510
- Sorgheloos in Poverty, stained glass, c. 1510-1520
- Detail (upside-down) from The Lecture tapestry, c. 1520
- Annunciation by Jan de Beer
- Annunciation by Jan de Beer, c. 1520
- Cats in the Tudor Pattern Book (Ashmole 1504, fol. 32v), c. 1520-1530
- A cat sleeps on top of a tiled stove in the January section of the Augsburger Monatsbilder, 1520s
- A cat in a detail from the Creation of the Animals, book of hours (Douce 135, fol. 17v), 2nd quarter of the 16th century
- Annunciation by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1527
- Allegory of Music by Hans Baldung Grien, c. 1529
- Birth of St. John the Baptist; a cat sits on the cradle (fol. 23v) and a cat with two dogs at the Last Supper (fol. 56r), the Hours of Eleonora Ippolita Gonzaga (Douce 29), c. 1530-1538
- Detail from Human Life: Old Age tapestry, 1534
- Portrait of a lady with a cat by Ambrosius Benson (also here)
- Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb by Hans Asper, 1538
- Portrait of a woman with a cat by Bacchiacca, 1540s
- Portrait of a woman with a cat by Ambrosius Benson, c. 1540-1550
- Woman with a cat by Francesco Bacchiacca, 1540s
- Lady at a window with two children by Erhard Schön, 1541
- Detail from The Last Supper by Jacopo Bassano, c. 1546
- Portrait of a young lady holding a cat by Francesco Bacchiacca
- Detail from Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
- Detail from The Marriage at Cana by Paolo Veronese, 1563
- Leda and the Swan by Tintoretto, c. 1570
- The Kitchen by Joachim Beuckelaer
- The animals enter the Ark by Jacopo Bassano
- Noah's Sacrifice by Jacopo Bassano, c. 1574
- The Madonna and Child with St. Joseph and the Infant Baptist (La Madonna del Gatto) by Federico Barocci, c. 1575
- A visit to the wet nurse by Marten van Cleve
- Sketch of a cat's head by Federico Barocci
- Detail from The Garden of Paradise by Jacob de Backer, c. 1576-1600
- Kitchen by Vincenzo Campi, 1580s
- Detail from Otto Venius painting, surrounded by his family, 1584
- Detail from Jupiter as a Satyr with Antiope and her Twins by Vincent Sellaer, 16th century
- Two children teasing a cat by Annibale Carracci, c. 1590
- Annunciation by Federico Barocci, 1592-1596
- The gourmand by Jodocus van Winghe, 1593
- The animals enter the Ark by Gerolamo Bassano, 16th century
- The Last Supper by Leandro Bassano, 16th century
- Detail from The Wedding at Cana by Leandro Bassano, 16th century
- Portrait of a woman with a cat attributed to Pierre Biard, 16th century
- Sketch of a girl holding a cat from an artist in the circle of Giuseppe Cesari, 16th century
- The Holy Family with St. Anne, St. Elizabeth, and the boy St. John the Baptist by the workshop of Franz Floris, 16th century
- Sketch of a domestic scene by Annibale Carracci, 16th century
- Children play with a cat, Ming-dynasty China, 16th century
- Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton c. 1603
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