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I've attempted to organize the tables by type, and then within each type, chronologically. Paintings and illustrations have been included where they show particularly interesting details of a table's design or construction. This page is still under construction; for now, it focuses on the two types of trestle tables. For additional links on this subject, click here.
TRESTLE TABLES - TYPE 1 (Tabletops supported by two or more sawhorse-like trestles, which are not otherwise interconnected; no apparent connection to tabletop)
- The Luttrell family at dinner from the Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS Add. 42130, fol. 208), c. 1325-1335
- Feast of Job, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 164), fourth quarter of the 14th century
- Belazel and Oholiab make holy garments for Aaron, Paduan Bible Picture Book (British Library MS Add. 15277, fol. 16), fourth quarter of the 14th century
- Castration of the Hebrews, Bible historiale (BNF Fr. 159, fol. 232v), 14th-15th century
- Lancelot at Corbenic, Tristen de Léonois (BNF Fr. 97, fol. 548), first quarter of the 15th century
- Two men dine at either end of a table, Flore de Virtu e de Costumi (British Library Harley 3448, fol. 2v), first quarter of the 15th century
- Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, Breviary of John the Fearless (British Library MS Harley 2897, fol. 379), c. 1413-1419
- A wealthy man at dinner, 15th century
- Atreus' revenge, De casibus (BNF Fr. 229, fol. 16v), c. 1435-1440
- Christ in the House of Simon by Dieric Bouts the Elder, 1440s
- February (fol. 2r) and October (fol. 10r) in a book of hours (Morgan Library MS M.358), c. 1440-1450
- A meal, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 43, fol. 1), mid-15th century
- Feast of Esther, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 55, fol. 129v), second half of the 15th century
- Jean Mansel, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 56, fol. 203), second half of the 15th century
- Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 57, fol. 39), second half of the 15th century
- St. Mary Madeleine from the Book of Hours of Étienne Chevalier, ca. 1455
- Tristan and Dinadan at the house of Pelinier, Tristen de Léonois (BNF Fr. 102, fol. 179v), c. 1470
- The author Titus Livius (or the translator Pierre Bersuire?) at work (also here), Ab urbe condita (BNF Fr. 273, fol. 7), c. 1475
- Feast of Balthazar, Antiquities of the Jews (BNF Fr. 13, fol. 266), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Dissection, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 218, fol. 56), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- Servants in a book of hours (BNF NAL 3116, fol. 1v), end of the 15th century
- January in the Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
- Hero, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 873, fol. 125v), 15th-16th century
- Enbalming of Alexander's body, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 711, fol. 41v), 15th-16th century
- St. Mary Magdalene washing the feet of Christ, Hours of Henry VIII (Morgan MS H.8, fol. 187v), c. 1500
- An emblematical miniature on the nature of love in a book of love poetry (British Library MS Stowe 955, fol. 14), early 16th century
- February in the Book of Hours of Anne of Brittany (BNF Lat 9474, fol. 5), c. 1503-1508
TRESTLE TABLES - TYPE 2 (Tabletops supported by two or more trestles, generally two-footed or four-footed, which are interconnected with long support beams under the table, often with mortise-and-tenon joints holding the beam to the legs)
- Table, 15th century southern Germany
- The miracle of the fishes of St. Ulrich, c. 1450-1455
- A meal, a textbook for Maximilian I (ÖNB 2368, fol. 13), c. 1460-1465
- Detail from The Birth of Mary from an altarpiece at Biertan, Romania, c. 1480-1500
- Christ at the house of Mary and Martha in a prayerbook (ÖNB 1960, fol. 130v), c. 1495-1505
- Gothic chest-table, upper Austria, end of the 15th century,/li>
- Table, Tyrol, c. 1500
- Box-table, Germany, c. 1500 (also here)
- Box-table, c. 1500 (also here)
- Box-table, Ulm, c. 1500 (side view)
- St. Jerome in his Study by Albrecht Dürer, 1511
- The miracle of the fishes of St. Ulrich by Hans Holbein the Elder, 1512
- October in a book of hours, 1515
- Signboard for the schoolmaster Myconius by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1516
- Detail from the healing of the paralyzed woman, from an Austrian altarpiece of the miracles of Mary, c. 1518-1522
- Table, France, second half of the 16th century (also here and here)
- Martin Luther as Jerome by Wolfgang Stuber, c. 1587-1597
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