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The links below focus on images of schoolmasters and other such teachers at work in medieval classrooms, focusing on children's teachers (rather than university teachers, or teachers of clergy).
See also A history of education during the Middle Ages and the transition to modern times.
- Grammar and her students, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, (BNF Latin 7900 A, fol. 127), 10th century
- Teachers and students on fols. 95, 113r, and 127v, Rhetoric of Cicero (Musée Condé 433), 1282
- Rabban Gamaliel and his students, Hispano-Moresque Haggadah (British Library Oriental 2737, fol. 20v), c. 1300
- Classroom with teacher and pupils, Summa on the Codex of Justinian (Canon. Misc. 416, fol. 1r), beginning of the 14th century
- Aristotle teaches Alexander, Romance of Alexander (BNF Fr. 790, fol. 1), first quarter of the 14th century
- Apes go to school, the Maastricht Hours (Brit. Lib. Stowe 17, fol. 109r), 1st quarter of the 14th century
- The Schoolmaster of Eßlingen, Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 292v), 1300-1330
- Several illustrations in a scholastic miscellany (British Library Burney 275), c. 1309-1316
- An ape schoolmaster beats his student with a switch (fol. 6r) and a fox dressed as a teacher instructs a six-headed monster (fol. 7r), Les voeux du paon (PML G.24), c. 1350
- A student is punished, Omne Bonum (British Library Royal 6 E VI, fol. 214), c. 1360-1375
- Education, Remède de Fortune (BNF Fr. 1584, fol. 49v), c. 1372-1377
- Lessons, a bible (Universitätsbibliothek Graz cod. 143, fol. 157r), c. 1395-1405
- The education of girls, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 290, fol. 197v), first quarter of the 15th century
- A teacher instructs his pupils, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917, fol. 62v), c. 1440
- Aristotle instructing Alexander, La vraye histoire du bon roy Alixandre (British Library Royal 20 B XX, fol. 10v), c. 1420
- A female teacher instructs a group of young women in reading, a prayerbook (British Library Harley 3828, fol. 27v), c. 1445
- A school, Hours of Louis of Savoy (BNF Latin 9473, fol. 172), c. 1450
- A geometry lesson, On the liberal arts (BNF Latin 8500, fol. 38), 15th century
- Starting school, The book of vices and virtues (BNF Fr. 20320, fol. 177v), 15th century
- The instruction of the young, Aristotle's Politics, Ethics, and Economics (BNF Fr. 22500, fol. 248), 15th century
- The schoolmaster by Maso Finiguerra
- The School of Tagaste (detail) by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464-1465
- Master Hippocrates and his students, Schachzabelbuch (WLB Cod. poet. 2, fol. 254), 1467
- Mercury and His Children, the Wolfegg Housebook, c. 1475-1485
- Grammar, ÖNB 2975, fol. 1r, 1477
- A doctor teaching pupils, Turba philosophorum (St. John's College G. 14, fol. 96v), 1479
- A geometry lesson, De arithmetica opusculum (BNF Impr. Rés. V 2041, fol. IV), 1491
- A teacher and his students by Amico Aspertini, 15th-16th century
- A school scene (CL203), c. 1500-1530
- Schoolmaster by Albrecht Dürer, 1510
- From the basics to university, Margarita Philosophica nova (BNF Impr. Rés. R. 813), 1515
- Signboard for the schoolmaster Myconius by Ambrosius Holbein, 1516
- A school in the schoolmaster's apartment; a new student is presented, Germany, 16th century
- The Ass at School by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1556; details
- The School, 1658
- The Schoolmaster by Adrien van Ostade, 1662
- A classroom with a family portrait by Jan Miense Molenaer
- The Village School by Jan Steen, c. 1670
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