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Examples of hardware for roasting meats over a fire – the precursor of the modern rotisserie style of cooking. (Spits are often placed in front of the fire, with a broad, flat pan to catch drippings under the meat.)
- A monkey turning a spit, the Maastricht Hours (Brit. Lib. Stowe 17, fol. 176r), 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Roasting meats on a spit, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 206v), c. 1325-1340
- King Arthur finds a giant roasting a pig, Roman de Brut (Brit. Lib. Egerton 3028, fol. 49), second quarter of the 14th century
- A soul on a spit over flames, with two devils turning him on the spit and stoking the flames (Brit. Lib. Yates Thompson 13, fol. 144r), 2nd quarter of the 14th century
- Roasting the Paschal lamb on a spit, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (ÖNB 2612, fol. 19r), c. 1330-1340
- Cooking poultry on a spit (Universitätsbibliothek Graz 32, fol. 3r), c. 1300-1350
- Man carrying meat on a spit, psalter (Douce 6, fol. 169r), c. 1320-1330
- Cooks roasting birds over a fire on fols. 83v and 170v, Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), c. 1338-1344
- Moses: Miracle of Quail, Weltchronik (PML M.769, fol. 112v), c. 1360
Take lene Raw Porke, & lene raw Flesshe of hennys, & raw eyroun, & rent şe flesshe fro þe bonys, & hew it smal; take þanne Salt, Gyngere, & Safroun, Salt, Galyngale, þer-of y-now, & caste it in a morter, & bray it smal; take þan þin fleysshe, & caste it in-to þat morter to şe Spycery, & şat it be wyl y-grounde; þanne make þer-of pelettys, as it were Applys, be-twene þin hondys; loke þou haue a fayre panne sething ouere şe fyre, & do þer-on þin pelettys, & late hem nowt sethe to swythe, & þan lat hem kele; & whan şey ben cold, ȝif hem a fayre spete of haselle, & be-twyn euery, loke þer be an ynche, & lay hem to þe fyre: & þan make þin baturys, þe on grene, & þat oþer ȝelow; þe grene of Percely. Harl. 279 - Moses at Passover, Speculum humanae salvationis (PML M.140, fol. 19r), c. 1350-1400
- Roasting meat, Tacuinum Sanitatis (Casanatense 4182), 14th century
- Spleen, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF NAL 1673, fol. 74), c. 1390-1400
- Moses: Passover, Speculum humanae salvationis (PML M.766, fol. 38r), c. 1400
- Marginal illustration of a youth turning two birds on a spit, Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917/945, p. 101), c. 1440
- Spleen, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 78v), 15th century
- The story of Chichibio, The Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 226v), 1432
- Detail from the Famine and Siege of Jerusalem tapestry, workshop of Pasquier Grenier, c. 1465-1475
- Miraculous resurrection of the roast chickens, 1470
- Liver, Libro de componere herbe et fructi (BNF Italien 1108, fol. 58v), c. 1471
- Hell, The City of God (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 246, fol. 389), c. 1475
- Detail from Metnitzer Totentanz, 15th century
- Kuchenmaistrey by Peter Wagner, 1485
- January, book of hours (Douce 12, fol. 1v), end of the 15th century
- 16th century Spanish (?) spit brackets, Met 58.174.1 and 58.174.2
- Burlesque Feast by Jan Mandijn, c. 1550
- Cook in front of the stove by Pieter Aertsen, 1559
- Peasants by the Hearth by Pieter Aertsen, 1560s
- Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1565
- Kitchen interior attributed to the studio of Marten van Cleve, c. 1565
- Kitchen Interior by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1566
- The Well-Stocked Kitchen by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1566
- The cook, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- Fête at Bermondsey by Joris Hoefnagel, 1569
- The Four Elements: Fire by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1570
- Mechanical spit, supports, specialized spits, outdoor spit, kitchen, and another kitchen in The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L’arte et prudenza d’un maestro Cuoco
- Harlequin tien ce chat et je prendray la broche, Jacques de Bellange, 1576
- De Blauwe Huyck by Joannes van Doetecum, 1577
- Des Teuffels Gar-kuchen by F. Hildenberg, 1580
- Kitchen by Vincenzo Campi, 1580s
- Anna Mulner genannt Dachterin (1582), Ottilia Seidenin (1594), and Barbara Stromairin (1599), the Mendel Hausbuch; all three seem to be cooking sausages on a spit (though Barbara Stromairin seems to be roasting another meat as well)
- The kitchen-maid by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael
- Kitchen scene by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael
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