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For more on this subject, including construction of balls and the rules for medieval ball games, see these links.
- Wooden bowling ball from Medieval York
- Men playing skittles, Lancelot du Lac (British Library MS Royal 20 D. IV, fol. 187), 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
- 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 playing a bat-and-ball game, The Smithfield Decretals (British Library Royal 10 E. IV, fol. 94v), c. 1340
- Tyrolean fresco of noblemen and women playing ball, 1400 (also here, dated 1390-1395)
- The Pilgrim meets Youth in Die pelgrimage van der menscheliker creaturen (The Hague, KB, 76 E 6), c. 1440-1460
- Throwing a ball (ÖNB 2861, fol. 95r), c. 1474-1574
- Children playing, a book of heraldry (ÖNB 12820, fol. 182r), c. 1484-1486
- Two boys tease a baby in a walking-frame, the Book of Hours of the Ango Family (BNF NAL 392, fol. 26 bis), 1500
- January: five boys play a game with bent clubs and a ball, a book of hours, 1515
- Four men playing a game resembling golf, The Golf Book (British Library MS Add. 24098, fol. 27), 1520-1530
- Polo scene, Garaib us-sigar (British Library MS Or. 13061, fol. 87v), c. 1520-1530
- January: Boys playing games, including two who are playing with a ball and bent sticks, 1522
- Polo, Kulliyyat (British Library MS Add. 24944, fol. 291), 1566
- Playing polo, Dîvân (BNF suppl. persan 1309, fol. 147), c. 1575
- More Playing polo (BNF suppl. turc 762), 16th century
- Playing tennis, Illustrissimi Wirtembergici ... (British Library MS 10261.e.3), c. 1600
- Football, Illustrations of the Three Powers (British Library MS 15024.a.1), 1609
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