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- Spade shoe from Braives, c. 1-499
- Spade shoe from the Roman fort at Rough Castle, c. 140-165
- Spade carved from a single piece of ash, with a handle probably made of walnut, with an off-set blade, 12th-15th century
- Reconstruction of a 13th century spade with a photo of an example from the Kultuhistorisches Museum Stralsund
- Wooden spade dating from the medieval period, found in Preston, 13th-16th century
- Cleric, knight, and workman, Li Livres dou Santé (British Library Sloane 2435, fol. 85), late 13th century
- Cain kills Abel, La Somme le Roi (Bibl. Mazarine 870, fol. 103), 1295
- Parts of a spade shoe from Urquhart Castle, 13th-17th centuries
- Cain slays Abel, History of the Holy Grail (BNF Fr. 105, fol. 65v), first half of the 14th century
- Adam, The Holkham Bible Picture Book (British Library Add. 47682, fol. 4v), c. 1320-1330
- Cain kills Abel, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 8, fol. 11), c. 1320-1330
- Adam and Eve (fol. 1) and Cain killing Abel (fol. 11v), Bible historiale (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 20), c. 1320-1337
- Cain killing Abel, Bible historiale (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 22, fol. 11v), c. 1330
- God calls on Cain to account for his deed, Bible historiale (MMW 10 B 23), 1372
- Cain slays Abel with a spade, Bible historiale (KB 78 D 43, fol. 9r), c. 1375
- God, angels, and fallen angels, The City of God (BNF Fr. 20, fol. 238v), beginning of the 15th century
- Horseradish, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 49), 15th century
- Dispute among Satan's henchmen, Books of Modus and Ratio (BNF Fr. 1297, fol. 150v), first quarter of the 15th century
- Detail from the construction of the cloister of St. Leonhard, c. 1400-1450
- Mixing mortar for the construction of the Tower of Babel, Bedford Hours (British Library Add. 18850, fol. 17v), c. 1414-1423
- A standing saint holding a shovel, Prayers to the Saints (British Library Egerton 859, fol. 25), c. 1420-1425
- Noli me tangere from an altarpiece with scenes of the Passion of Christ, c. 1425-1430
- Noli me tangere, The Life of Christ (ÖNB 485, fol. 71v), c. 1425-1435
- Miners, De casibus (BNF Fr. 232, fol. 105v), second quarter of the 15th century
- Cecco Angiolieri, The Decameron (BNF Fr. 239, fol. 251v), second quarter of the 15th century
- Ranks of society: the laboring class, Des cas des nobles hommes (British Library Royal 18 D. VII, fol. 2), c. 1440
- Details at lower left and upper left of St. Helena finding the True Cross, c. 1440-1445
| As a spade hath thre partys, þat is, a scho, an heued, & an handyll, so þis spade pouert in spirite ... doth thre thynges. Jacob's Well Salisbury Cathedral Library 174 |
- St. Fiacre of Meaux holding a book and a spade, Hours of Philip of Burgundy (KB 76 F 2, fol. 272r), c. 1450-1460
- Planting a garden, Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx (BNF Arsenal 5064, fol. 151v), third quarter of the 15th century
- The reconstruction of Troy (fol. 114v) and the construction of Rome (fol. 134v), Fleur des histoires (Bibl. Mazarine 1559), third quarter of the 15th century
- Shovel head, found in Coleorton, 1450-1600
- Detail from the construction of the cloister of St. Leonhard, c. 1452-1461
- St. Fiacre of Meaux holding a book and a spade, Hours of Simon de Varie (KB 74 G 37, fol. 85r), c. 1455
- Noli me tangere, a psalter (ÖNB 1775, fol. 95v), c. 1455-1465
- Noli me tangere, c. 1460
- Noli me tangere by Friedrich Herlin, 1462
- The funeral of Isaac (fol. 39v), the funeral of Moses (fol. 133v), and construction of the Temple (fol. 239r), world chronicle (ÖNB 2823), 1463
- Cain kills Abel (fol. 1), Noah cultivates the grapevine (fol. 32), Roboam and his subjects (fol. 79v), the siege of Kyzikos (fol. 169v), Noli me tangere (fol. 233), Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50), 1463
- Salvaging from the ashes, Konzil von Konstanz (ÖNB 3044, fol. 82r), c. 1465-1475
- A man with a spade in an orchard, Rustican (British Library Royal 14 E. VI, fol. 28), 1473-1483?
- Christine questions Reason, The City of Ladies (British Library Add. 20698, fol. 22), 1475
- June (fol. 5r) and Saturn (fol. 20r), and Noli me tangere (fol. 112r), Biblia Pauperum (ÖNB 3085), 1475
- Cain slays Abel with a spade, The City of God (MMW 10 A 11, fol. 430v), c. 1475-1480
- Workmen and their tools, Des cas des nobles hommes (British Library Add. 18750, fol. 3), c. 1480
- Christ as a gardener by Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1483
- Salvaging the relics of St. Felix, St. Regula, and St. Exuperantius, c. 1485-1495
- Detail from Dance of Death frescoes at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Hrastovlje, 1490
- Death holding a spear and a spade, looking into a mirror, a book of hours (KB 76 F 14, fol. 83r), c. 1490-1500
- Detail from Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1490-1500
- Abdalonymos, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 709, fol. 1), 15th-16th century
- Cain kills Abel (fol. 150,7) and Noli me tangere (fol. 310v), missal (Bibl. Mazarine 412), c. 1492
- Detail from St. Helena finding the True Cross, c. 1495-1505
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Grete laborer was I neuer, bodili ne gostli. I had neuer grete strengþe my3tli to laboure wiþ spade ne wiþ shouel. The Orcherd of Syon |
- St. Fiacre of Meaux holding a spade and a book, a book of hours (KB 76 F 20, fol. 177v), c. 1500-1510
- Noli me tangere (ÖNB 2752, fol. 135v), c. 1500-1525
- Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen as a Gardener by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1507
- March, Da Costa Hours, c. 1515
- Noli me tangere, c. 1515-1525
- Arsenal in Innsbruck (ÖNB 10816, fol. 2v-3r), 1518
- Ore preparation, Schwazer Bergbuch (Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Dipl. 856), 1556
- Memento mori memorare novissima by Johann Sadeler, c. 1580-1600
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