Spielzeug im Mittelalter features more photos and descriptions of related artifacts. Also take a look at the BNF's online resources for L'enfance au Moyen ge, as well as the related articles posted at the bottom of this page. This discussion thread features additional photos of medieval toys, including a doll's head, a toy knight, a whistle, miniatures,
Portrait of Arabella Stuart, 1577 (also here).
Arabella clutches a fashion doll; the style of the doll's clothing date from about ten years before than the portrait, lending credence to the theory that fashion dolls would be given to children as playthings after they were used or out-of-date. For additional information about dolls from this era, see Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, pp. 107 and 157-158.
A girl with a doll and A Noblewoman of Pomeiock, illustrated by Theodore de Bry in Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia, 1590
Dolls' stall, Jacob Cats' Spiegel van den ouden ende nieuwen tijdt, 1632
The rootes which are counterfited and made like litle puppettes and mammettes which come to be sold in England in boxes with heir and such forme as man hath, are nothyng elles but folishe fened trifles and not naturall.
Border, De civitate dei (BNF Fr. 19, fol. 190), c. 1469-1473
A little boy rides a hobby-horse in an illustration of the seven ages of man, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 218, fol. 95), fourth quarter of the 15th century (also here)
Children playing, a book of heraldry (ÖNB 12820, fol. 182r), c. 1484-1486
Some of the 14th-18th century playthings from the Museum of London and the Society of Thames Mudlarks from the "Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past" exhibit are in the British Museum, including some miniature guns and cooking and serving vessels.
SCOPPERELS (a sort of pinwheel or whirligig, often on a long stick held like a lance while riding a hobby-horse; some seem to be shorter, and mounted on a ball held in the hand)
Melica, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Fr. 9333, fol. 46v), early 15th century
Boy playing with a top in the ages of man, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF 22531, fol. 99v), first quarter of the 15th century
A boy plays with a top in the ages of man, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 9141, fol. 98), first quarter of the 15th century
The Holy Family from a book of hours (Brit. Lib. Add. 18193, f.48v), after 1463
Boy playing with a top in the ages of man, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 22533, fol. 84v), 3rd quarter of the 15th century
A top lies on the floor in front of Cato of Utica and his brothers, The so-called Chronicle of Badouin of Avesnes (BNF Fr. 279, fol. 127), second half of the 15th century; note also the crooked stick and ball, which may have been used to play one of these games
