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• Wooden bowling ball from Medieval York; see also Leather and Leatherworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York for medieval leather balls
• A ball player, Magnum legendarium austriacum (Stiftsbibliothek Zwettl cod. 13, fol. 5r), 13th century
• Men playing skittles (fol. 187) and another ball game (fol. 207), Lancelot du Lac (British Library MS Royal 20 D IV), beginning of the 14th century
• A game of boules in the border of the Romance of Alexander (BNF Fr. 789, fol. 22), first quarter of the 14th century
• Apes playing boules in a border from a Bible (BNF Fr. 13096, fol. 25), 1313
• Fols. 67r, 82v, 96v, 148r, psalter (Douce 6), c. 1320-1330
• Men playing pitch-in-the-hole, The Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130, fol. 193v), c. 1325-1335
• Stick-ball (fol. 22r), and boules (fol. 63r), Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264, fol. 63r), c. 1338-44
• Men play a game with bats and balls (fol. 94v), men play a game with a ball and curved sticks (fol. 95), and men play with balls (fol. 98v), The Smithfield Decretals (British Library Royal 10 E IV, fol. 94v), c. 1340
• Small leather ball found in London, dating from the mid to late 1300s; “formed of four pieces of leather sewn around a solid moss stuffing”
• Noblemen and women playing ball (also here) in a fresco at Runkelstein Castle at Bolzano, c. 1390-1395
• Fols. 96r, 102r, 122r, a book of hours (Douce 62), c. 1400
• The Pilgrim meets Youth in Die pelgrimage van der menscheliker creaturen (The Hague, KB, 76 E 6), c. 1440-1460
• A game played with a curved stick and ball in February (fol. 2v) and November (fol. 11v), the Book of Hours of Adélaïde de Savoie (Musée Condé 78, fol. 8v), c. 1460-1465
• Throwing a ball (ÖNB 2861, fol. 95r), c. 1474-1574
• Children playing, a book of heraldry (ÖNB 12820, fol. 182r), c. 1484-1486
• Post-medieval leather ball found in London, c. 1485-1603
• Two boys tease a baby in a walking-frame, the Book of Hours of the Ango Family (BNF NAL 392, fol. 26 bis), 1500
• Boys playing bowls (fol. 12r) and animals playing a game with bent sticks and croquet-like hoops (fol. 29v), a book of hours (Douce 276), beginning of the 16th century
• Playing skittles, Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52, fol. 6v), c. 1500-1510
• January: five boys play a game with bent clubs and a ball, a book of hours, 1515
• boys playing marbles (fol. 26v) and four men playing a game resembling golf (fol. 27), The Golf Book (British Library MS Add. 24098, fol. 27), 1520-1530
Polo
• Ardashîr is grateful to reconnaissant Shâpûr I, Shâh-nâma (BNF suppl. pers. 1280, fol. 365), c. 1490
• Afrâsiyâb and Siyâvûsh play polo, Shâh-nâma (BNF suppl. pers. 1122, fol. 90), beginning of the 16th century
• Polo scene, Garaib us-sigar (British Library MS Or. 13061, fol. 87v), c. 1520-1530
• Polo, Kulliyyat (British Library MS Add. 24944, fol. 291), 1566
• Ardash&icric;r is grateful to Shâpûr I, Shâh-nâma (BNF suppl. persan 2113), 1567
• Playing polo, Dîvân (BNF suppl. persan 1309, fol. 147), c. 1575
• Siyavush playing polo, Shahnama (British Library Add. 27257, fol 107), c. 1590-1595
• Siyawush playing polo, Shahnama of Firdawsi (British Library I.O. ISLAMIC 3254, fol. 75v), c. 1590-1600
• Playing polo, Garâ'îb al-Sigâr (BNF suppl. turc 762, fol. 141v), 16th century
• Ball games (perhaps jeu de paume) in fols. 7r and 85v, a book of hours (Douce 135, fol. 7r), second quarter of the 16th century
• The story of David and Bathsheba, 16th century
• Boys playing ball games, 16th century
• January: Boys playing games, including two who are playing with a ball and bent sticks, 1522
• The Kermis of St George after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, published by Hieronymus Cock c. 1553-1556
• Bowling from Melancolia in the Garden of Life by Matthias Gerung, 1558
• A game of skittles, a gradual (British Library Add. 16175, fol. 347), 1570
• Playing tennis, Illustrissimi Wirtembergici … (British Library MS 10261.e.3), c. 1600
• Playing a ball-game, c. 1600-1637
• Football, Illustrations of the Three Powers (British Library MS 15024.a.1), 1609
• A Scene on the Ice near a Town (with a game of kolf) by Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1615
• A game of kolf on the ice by Hendrik Avercamp, c. 1620