These illustrations show a range of styles of boxes and demonstrate some of the purposes for which they might have been used. For extant examples of some of these types, see the main linkspage for caskets, coffers, and boxes.

• The Maciejowski Bible, fol. 6 (Joseph is alive and Jacob is brought before Pharaoh), c. 1250
• The Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS. ADD. 42130), c. 1320-1340: A servant dressing a lady's hair
• Emenidus and the messenger of Rosenes, La Prise de Defur (BNF Fr. 12565, fol. 201), mid-14th century
• Raisins, Tacuinum Sanitatis (Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 3), c. 1390-1400
• Elice deceives Arthur, Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 118, fol. 264), beginning of the 15th century
• Juno (fol. 11) and Megullia (fol. 83v), De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 598, fol. 11), beginning of the 15th century
• Mago Barca receives the golden rings, Ab urbe condita (BNF 267, fol. 47v), first quarter of the 15th century
• Merchants of precious stones, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 9141, fol. 235v), first quarter of the 15th century
• Merchants, De proprietatibus rerum (BNF Fr. 22531, fol. 257v), first quarter of the 15th century
• Biagio Pizzini and Giovanni; Cipolla tricks the faithful, The Decameron (BNF 239, fol. 179v), second quarter of the 15th century
• Mercy presents the grace of Guillaume de Digulleville (fol. 104v) and Prayer in purgatory (fol. 110v), The Pilgrimage of Human Life (BNF Fr. 376), second quarter of the 15th century
• The battle of Auray, Froissart's Chronicles (BNF Fr. 2675, fol. 388), second quarter of the 15th century
• Detail from Evagationes Spiritus, 1430s
• The Death of the Virgin on the Wurzach Altarpiece by Hans Multscher, 1437
• Avarice in the Dunois Hours (British Library, Yates Thompson 3, fol. 174), c. 1440-1450
• Prophet Jeremiah and Christ, 1443-45
• Medea hands a casket to Jason in Christine de Pisan's L'épître d'Othéa (KB, 74 G, fol. 54v), c. 1450-1475
• The pillage of the camp of Darius III (fol. 68v), the pillage of Perseopolis (fol. 133v), and Alexander receives gifts (fol. 280v), The History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 20311), third quarter of the 15th century
• Alexander and the envoys of Darius III, The History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 47, fol. 34v), second half of the 15th century
• Fabius Vibulanus and his brother (fol. 272) and Sempronius Tuditanus and Fulvius Bambalio, (fol. 355v), Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 289), second half of the 15th century
• Allegory of Wealth (fol. 26v) and Allegory of Memory (fol. 27v), The Twelve Dames of Rhetoric (BNF Fr. 1174), second half of the 15th century
• St. Barlaam and Zardan, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 171v), 1463
• St. Jerome in his Study (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480
• Madonna of the Book by Sandro Botticelli, 1483
• "A mon seul désir" tapestry from the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries (or see this detail), 1484-1500
• Annunciation with St. Emidius by Carlo Crivelli, 1486
• Birth of St. John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486-90
• Lot Fleeing with his Daughters from Sodom by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1498
• Hercules strangles the serpents, History of Troy (BNF Fr. 252, fol. 73), 15th-16th century
• Alexander, Nazarbanes, and Thalestris, The History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 710, fol. 8v), 15th-16th century
• Adoration of the Magi by Albrecht Dürer, 1504 (detail)
• St. Anne Altarpiece by Quentin Massys, 1507-08
• Portrait of Georg Gisze (detail) by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532
• Dulle Griet (detail) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562