A medieval plow generally consists of a large blade that is drawn by a horse to cut a furrow into the soil and turn it over to prepare for seed-planting.

See also Walter of Henley's Husbandry and Medieval Farming and Technology.

• An ard share, c. 1-400
• An ox-drawn plow in the Utrecht Psalter (UBB Utrecht Bibl. Rhenotraiectinae I Nr 32, fol. 49v), 9th century [advance to page 98 of 184 on that link]
• An iron ploughshare, c. 850-900
• Tubal-Cain with his axe and plough, the Caedmon manuscript (Junius 11, fol. 54), c. 1000
• The main beam of a plough, c. 1050-1230
• Lower border in the Bayeux Tapestry
• Massacre of Job's servants, Moralia in Job (BNF Latin 15675, fol. 3v), 2nd quarter of the 12th century
• Marginal illustration, Collectanea in Domni Pauli Epistolas (BNF Latin 14267, fol. 157), c. 1170-1180
• Those who plough iniquity and sow wickedness, Job with catena (Barocci 201, fol. 57r), 4th quarter of the 12th century to beginning of the 13th century
• June, a psalter (BNF NAL 3102, fol. 4), c. 1230-1240
• Idleness as a ploughman sleeping beside his neglected plough, Somme le Roi (British Library Additional 28162, fol. 8v), c. 1290-1300
• Idleness as a ploughman sleeping beside his neglected plough, Somme le Roi (British Library Additional 54180, fol. 121v), c. 1295
• Drawing of a swing plough with a coulter, Cistercian cartulary of Nun Coton (Top. Lincs. d. 1, fol. 53r), late 13th century
• Illustration of a fable, Kalila va Dimna (BNF Latin 8504, fol. 160), 1313
• Renart and the laborer (fol. 42r) and Renart at work (fol. 42v), Li Romans de Renart Contrefait (BNF Fr. 1630), 14th century/after 1314
• Marginalia with a horse-drawn plough made from a jaw bone (Douce 6, fol. 129r), c. 1320-1330
• Ploughing with a team of oxen, the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Additional 42130, fol. 170r), c. 1325-1340
• Cain and his descendants toiling, the Holkham Bible Picture Book (British Library Additional 47682, fol. 6r), c. 1327-1335
• Miracles of Our Lady: The dishonest peasant, Miracles de Nostre Dame (BNF NAF 24541, fol. 172r), c. 1330-1340
• A man with a horse-drawn plough, The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264, fol. 44r), c. 1338-1344
• Ceres, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 12420, fol. 12), 1402
• Second Decanus of Taurus, astrological treatises (PML M.785, fol. 7r), c. 1403
• Ceres, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598, fol. 11r), 1403
• Ceres, Épître d'Othéa (BNF Fr. 606, fol. 13v), c. 1406
• April in the frescoes at the Castello Buonconsiglio, c. 1405-1410
• March in the Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416
• The destruction of Job's sheep, Bible historiale (PML M.394, fol. 178v), c. 1415
• Rynolt, the Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 8r), c. 1425
• Marginal drawings in John Crophill's commonplace book, 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
• Death takes a fieldworker, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 146v), c. 1430-1435
• Society: the laborers, De informatione principum (BNF Fr. 126, fol. 7), c. 1450
• Fols. 13v and 119v, works of Virgil (BNF Latin 7939 A), 1458
• Aglaos of Psophis, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 41, fol. 303v), 3rd quarter of the 15th century
• Illustrated proverb, book of hours (BNF NAL 3134, fol. 63r), second half of the 15th century
• Janus, De civitate dei (BNF Fr. 18, fol. 137), c. 1469-1473
• Ulysses feigns madness, walking behind a plow pulled by two foxes, Confessio amantis (PML M.126, fol. 77v), c. 1470
• October, a book of hours (PML M.366, fol. 13r), c. 1470
• Laborers in the fields and in the barn, Livre des prouffis champestres et ruraux (PML M.232, fol. 62r), c. 1470
• Jason captures the Golden Fleece, Destruction de la noble cite de Thebes (PML G.23, fol. 53r), 1474
• Arabia (fol. 6), Afghanistan (fol. 8), Italy (fol. 38), Greece (fol. 43), Secrets de l'Histoire Naturelle (BNF Fr. 22971), c. 1480-1485
• Hanß Crafft, the Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 106r), 1489
• Boethius and the peasants, The consolation of philosophy (BNF Néer. 1, fol. 116v), 1491
• October, a prayerbook (Douce 12, fol. 11r), end of the 15th century
• October, the Hours of Henry VIII (Morgan Library H. 8, fol. 5v), c. 1500
• September, the Hours of Joanna I of Castile (British Library Additional 35313, fol. 5v), c. 1500
• September, the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52, fol. 6r), c. 1500-1510
• March in the Grimani Breviary, 1510s
• September, the Da Costa Hours (Morgan Library 399, fol. 10v), c. 1515
• September from a book of hours by Simon Bening, c. 1520-1525
• September, The Golf Book (British Library Additional 24098, fol. 26v), c. 1520-1530
• September in a book of hours, 1524
• September in a breviary, c. 1525
• The Plowman from Dance of Death by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1524-1526
• September by Hieronymous Andrae, 1527
• September/Libra by Sebald Beham, c. 1529-1530
• September, a book of hours (PML M.451, fol. 5v), 1531
• October, a book of hours (PML M.452, fol. 11r), c. 1530-1535
• Fols. September in the Hennessy Book of Hours (fol. 10r), c. 1530-1540
• Peasants ploughing a field, printed by Heinrich Petri, c. 1544-1552
• Labors of the Months: September, mid-16th century
• Detail from Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555
• Hans Hertzog, the Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317b.2, fol. 72v), 1606