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1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 184:
E se os ollos teveren pano vello ou rezente, filla a siba e o sarro da cuba e a sal gema, tanto de ũu como doutro, e fage poo de todo e peneirao moi ben e lançao nos ollos deste poo por ũu canudo duas vezes no dia asaz del
And if the eyes have old or recent cloth, take cuttlefish and wine tartar and rock salt, as much of one as of the other, and make a powder of everything and sieve it well; and with a tube throw a good quantity of it in the eyes, twice a day
1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
Iten que se venda o pescado en esta maneira: a libra dos sacadores et das sollas et dos bodiõos, dos polvos et das fanequas et das rayas et das langostas et das sibias et das luras a tres dineiros cada libra
Item, they should sell the captured fish in this way: the pound of sacadores , of plaices, of Baillon's wrasses, of octopuses, of poutings, of stingrays, of lobsters, of cuttlefish and of squids, three diñeiros each pound
1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:
burazinos / panchozes tamañiños / Va jiba ou maragota / e si acasso ben pijota
little blackspot sea breams / and well sized axillary sea brams / With cuttlefish and ballan wrasse / and maybe also hake
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sibia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG