12th-century books

250px|thumb|First page from Manuscript C ( 1230) The ' (, or ; or ), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs''', is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The is based on an oral tradition of Germanic heroic legend that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries and that spread throughout almost all of Germanic-speaking Europe. Scandinavian parallels to the German poem are found especially in the heroic lays of the Poetic Edda and in the Völsunga saga''.

Old East Slavic heroic poem

first extant Hungarian book about history

code of Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides

illustrated illuminated manuscript of the Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes

chronicle of the Czech lands

book by Al-Ghazali

Welsh tale

Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. thumb|A problem from the Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya. Written in the 12th century. This appeared on page 18 of The Mathematical Mystery Tour by UNESCO in 1989.

book by Oddr Snorrason

series of twelve short narrative Breton lais by the poet Marie de France

thumb|right|A page of the late 13th century law . ' ( or ) or the Västgöta (Westrogothic) law' is the oldest Swedish text written in Latin script and the oldest of all Swedish provincial laws. It was compiled in the early 13th century, probably at least partly at the instigation of Eskil Magnusson and was the code of law used in the provinces of Västergötland and Dalsland and in Mo härad during the latter half of that century. The earliest complete text is dated 1281. Small fragments of an older text have been dated 1250.

Treatise on Old Norse phonology

Old French poem from the 12th/13th century

medieval tale

literary work

12th-century French romance

literary work by Hartmann von Aue

book by Mkhitar Gosh

12th century chronicle

thumb|Marie de France from an illuminated manuscript "Bisclavret" ("The Werewolf") is one of the twelve Lais of Marie de France written in the 12th century. Originally written in French, it tells the story of a knight who is trapped in wolf form by the treachery of his wife. The tale shares a common ancestry with the comparable Lay of Melion, and is probably referenced in Sir Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' with the tale of Sir Marrok, who has a similar story.

12th-century codex

Old French chanson de geste

book by Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī

collection of Japanese folk songs

Bijaganita (IAST: '') was treatise on algebra by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. It is the second volume of his main work Siddhānta Shiromani ("Crown of treatises") alongside Lilāvati, Grahaganita and Golādhyāya''.

12th-century Old French chanson de geste

late twelfth-century Old French chanson de geste

manuscript

literary work by Alexandre de Paris

Taoist book by Li Ying-Chang

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The Timarion () is a Byzantine pseudo-Lucianic satirical dialogue probably composed in the twelfth century (there are references to the eleventh-century Michael Psellus), though possibly later.

French epic poem (before 1150)

Middle Irish narrative cycle

Amiran-Darejaniani (), translated into English as "The story of Amiran, son of Darejan", is a medieval Georgian romance, dating probably from the early or middle decades of the twelfth century. It is one of those literary works which heralded the emergence of native secular literature after several centuries of domination by patristic tradition. It is a prose tale of battling knights in twelve episodes attributed to Moses of Khoni (Mose Khoneli; მოსე ხონელი). This attribution is found in the epilogue of Vep’khis-tqaosani, an epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, the greatest classic of medieval Georgi

thumb|A Persianate miniature from the 1729 manuscript of Visramiani. National Center of Manuscripts MSS S3702. thumb|The first-ever printed edition of Visramiani. Tbilisi, 1884. Visramiani () is a medieval Georgian version of the old Iranian love story Vīs and Rāmīn, traditionally taken to have been rendered in prose by Sargis of Tmogvi, a 12th/13th-century statesman and writer active during the reign of Queen Tamar (r. 1184–1213).

book by Al-Ghazali

Book by Al-Ghazali

12th-century Anglo-Norman romance

12th century manuscript of songs

book by Ali ibn al-Athir

12th-century chanson de geste

key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

book by Ibn al-Athīr Abū al-Saʻādāt

official history of the Kingdom of Genoa

book by Al-Ghazali