Following are illustrations of various types of temporary booths used by merchants and tradesmen to sell their wares at fairs, festivals, and market-days. The Goode Cookys Merchant Booth is a great example of a booth based on a 16th century Dutch painting; also check out Ideas for a Medieval-looking Stall .
The rape of Dinah in the Egerton Genesis (British Library, Egerton MS 1894, fol. 17r), 14th centuryA tent where bread is sold, and a tent as a tavern ; Romance of Alexander (Bodley 264, fol. 204r), c. 1338-44The fair at Lendit (also here ) in the Pontifical de Sens (BNF Latin 962, fol. 264), 14th centuryA marketplace in Le Chevalier errant (BNF Fr. 12559, fol. 167), c. 1400-1405In whiche principall festfull dayes ... the people is wilfully more vexed and defouled in bodely labour, in pycchyng and makyng of Bothis and Stalls.Rolls of Parliament , 5.152a, 1449
Presentation scene , Chroniques et Conquetes de Charlemagne (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 9066), 1460The marketplace at Eger , c. 1480-1490Tapestry: The village fair , first quarter of the 16th centuryNovember by Jörg BreuA fishwife in the November section of the Augsburger Monatsbilder The village market by Pieter Brueghel the Elder Market Scene Christ and the Adulteress Ecce Homo by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1566Village Festival here ) Detail from Village fair with theater and procession by Pieter BruegelVillage Fair Village Feast Village Feast Village Feast (Annual Fair) Village Feast
