See also the Dog Collar Museum at Leeds Castle, Mediaeval Collars for the Modern Dog, Exploring the medieval hunt, as well as these links.
For additional canine accoutrements, see “Coats, Collars, and Capes: Royal Fashions for Animals in the Early Modern Period” by John Block Friedman in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12.
- Annunciation, Gospel Lectionary (PML G.44, fol. 2v), c. 1050
- Illustration of a riddle, the Ormesby Psalter (Douce 366, fol. 72r), end of the 13th century-c. 1310
- Scenes from the Life of Joachim: Joachim among the Shepherds by Giotto di Bondone, 1304-1306
- A man with a pair of dogs, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 64v), c. 1325-1340
- The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), 1338-1344: Several pictures of dogs throughout the manuscript, but fol. 77v has an especially useful picture of leashes
- The Book of Modus and Ratio (BNF Fr. 12399), 1379:
Hunting a hind (fol. 18v),
Hunting a boar (fol. 23),
Hunting a boar (fol. 23v), and
Hunting a hare (fol. 43v)
- Harry the Hayward with a dog called Talbat, a calendar (Rawl. D. 939, section 1r), late 14th century
- Leaded glass: a dog, from a Dominican cloister in Ghent, 14th-15th century
- Textile fragment with a pattern of dogs, Brussels, 14th-15th century
Twey whyte grehoundys ronne hyr by - Har colers were of golde. Sir Launfal, ll. 965-966, late 14th century
- Several illustrations from the hunting-book of Gaston Phoebus; this link in particular goes to BNF Fr. 616 (beginning of the 15th century), but you can also use Mandragore for BNF Fr. 1291 (c. 1445-1450) and BNF Fr. 617 (beginning of the 16th century), or see PML M.1044, fol. 45 (c. 1410). See also Gaston Phebus: Dressing Your Hound.
- Parsley (fol. 31v),
mandrake (fol. 37),
gazelle (fol. 69v),
hare (fol. 70), and
hunting (fol. 93),
Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
- Tristan and the shepherds, Tristan de Léonois (BNF Fr. 97, fol. 136v), 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Diana and her maidens hunting a stag, L’Épître Othéa (British Library Harley 4431, fol. 124), c. 1410-1414
- Charles VI talking to Pierre Salmon, 1412
- January and December from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416
- The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano, 1423 (part of it is easier to see in this detail)
- Head of a muzzled dog by Antonio Pisanello, c. 1420-1450
- Detail from Garden of Love at the Court of Phillip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy
- Detail from a bas-relief of the story of Esau and Jacob, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1444-1452
- Several in a manuscript of the Book of the Hunt of Gaston Phoebus c. 1445-1450 (BNF Fr. 1291), including fols. 26v and 34v
- Detail from the presentation scene in the Chronicle of Hainaut, 1447-1448
- A woman and a dog supporting a heraldic escutcheon (Getty 7, fol. 2v) from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie; the dog's collar has Varie's motto
- Philosophy enthroned, The City of God (BNF Fr. 27, fol. 232), 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Massinissa guarded by his dogs, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 289, fol. 483v), second half of the 15th century
- The herald and his cat (an ocelot? a cerval? a jaguar?) in the Procession of the Old King in the Procession of the Magi frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-1460
- The feast of King Louis le Gros in The Romance of Girart de Nevers (Bibl. Royale Albert Ier 9631, fol. 2v), c. 1460
- Esau gives up his birthright, Speculum Historiale (BNF 50, fol. 45v), 1463
- Clovis I commands the exhumation of Apollo, Tristan de Léonois (BNF Fr. 99, fol. 30), 1463
- Annunciation (note spiked collar), a book of hours (PML M.1003, fol. 82v), c. 1465
- Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 112(1)), c. 1470:
Lancelot beats his master (fol. 4v) and
Saraide deceives Claudas (fol. 5v)
- Alboin and Rosamund feasting and the death of Alboin, Confessio Amantis (PML M.126, fol. 23r), c. 1470
- Isabeau of Bavaria enters Paris, Chroniques (BNF Fr. 2646, fol. 6r), c. 1470-1475
- The king of France arriving at Sluys with his army, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d’Angleterre (British Library Royal MS 14 E IV, fol. 258v), c. 1470-1480
- Romulus founding Rome in the Chronicle of Baudouin d'Avesnes (Bibl. Royale Albert Ier 9069, fol. 78r), c. 1470-1488
- Detail from the frescoes in the suite of Cardinal Francesco at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua by Andrea Mantegna, 1471-1474
- Triptych with Jean de Witte and Maria Hoore (detail), 1473
- Flavius Josephus in his study, Antiquities of the Jews (BNF Fr. 11, fol. 1), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- September, the Hours of Charles d’Angoulême (BNF Latin 1173, fol. 5r), c. 1475-1500
- The Wayfarer by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480
- Two white greyhounds in the Tournament-book of King René d'Anjou (BNF Fr. 2692, fol. 9v), c. 1488-1490
- January and August in the Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
- Diptych with Jean de le Cambe and St. John the Baptist, c. 1490-1510
- Several of the Unicorn Tapestries, 1495-1505, including Met
37.80.1,
37.80.2,
37.80.3,
37.80.4,
37.80.5,
38.51.1,
38.51.2
- The Garden of Pleasure, Échecs amoureux (BNF Fr. 143, fol. 198v), c. 1496-1498
- Detail from The Judgment of Cambyses by Gerard David, 1498
- Diana and Évrard de conty, Échecs amoureux, end of the 15th century
- Semiramis, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 599, fol. 5v), 15th or 16th century
- Detail from St. Wolfgang Enters Regensburg, c. 1500-1510
- Phaedra departs for the hunt, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 874, fol. 31v-32), beginning of the 16th century
- Faience albarello with a cherub and a dog, c. 1500-1520
- Two Venetian Ladies by Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1510
- February, a book of hours (PML M.250, fol. 2r), c. 1510
- King Solomon accepts gifts from the Queen of Sheba, 1520
- Two shepherds, early 16th century
- Adoration of the Magi by Joos van Cleve, c. 1525
- Fols. 2r,
3v,
4v, and
12v in the Hennessy Book of Hours, c. 1530-1540
- Portrait of Charles V by Jacob Seisenegger, 1532
- Portrait of Charles V by Titian, 1532-1533
- Hunting near Hartenfels Castle by Lucas Cranach, 1540
- Diana the Huntress, c. 1550
- Portrait of Jacquemyne Buuck (detail of dog's collar) by Pieter Pourbus, 1551
- Portrait of Metgen, the artist's wife by Antonis Mor, 1554
- Portrait of Infanta Juana by Alonso Sánchez Coello, 1557
- Several illustrations in La Venerie by Jaques du Fouiloux, 1561
- The sutlers by Nikolaus Solis, c. 1560-1584
- Studies of a Greyhound by Federico Zuccaro, 1563-1564
- Fête at Bermondsey by Joris Hoefnagel, 1569
- Portrait of a gentleman with a hunting dog by Antonis Mor, 1569
- Boy with a greyhound by Paolo Veronese, 1570s
- Of Our English Dogs And Their Qualities from Harrison's Description of England, 1577
Doesn't actually have much to do with leashes & collars, but it's an interesting bit to read.
- Labors of the Months: November, c. 1580
- Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington in the Hunting Field by Robert Peake the Elder, 1603
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