13th-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''.

Icelandic saga

Icelandic saga about the Norse exploration of North America

collection of Galician canticles (songs with music), preserved in several manuscripts

Icelandic saga about the Norse exploration of North America

medieval astronomical work

13th century Danish chronicle

oldest law texts

Norwegian educational text for a future king from c. 1250

treatise by Emperor Frederick II

is a historical and literary work about the history of Japan. Seven volumes in length, it was composed by Buddhist priest Jien of the Tendai sect around 1220.

songbook written in the Galician-Portuguese language from the 13th century

work from the 13th century

Old French poem from the 12th/13th century

13th-century French epic poem

medieval chronicle

collection of Japanese tales written around the beginning of the 13th century

13th-century compilation containing numerous Bible legends

book by Alfons X van Castilië

13th-century romance, written in the Occitan language

forensic science handbook, by Song Ci (Southern Song dynasty)

Book about the 613 mitzvot of the Torah.

book by Ibn Manzur

middle Welsh prose tale

essay by Dōgen describing the practice of zazen

The Marzbān-nāma () is an early 13th-century Persian prose work. It consists of "various didactic stories and fables used as illustrations of morality and right conduct", and belongs to the "mirror for princes" literary genre. It was written in 1210–1225 by Sa'ad al-Din Varavini, under the patronage of Abu'l-Qasem Harun, the vizier of the Eldiguzid ruler (atabeg) Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek (1210–1225).

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).

Titurel is a fragmentary Middle High German romance written by Wolfram von Eschenbach after 1217. The fragments which survive indicate that the story would have served as a prequel to Wolfram's earlier work, Parzival, expanding on the stories of characters from that work and on the theme of the Holy Grail. Titurel was continued by a later poet named Albrecht, who tied the story together in a work generally known as Jüngere Titurel ("Younger Titurel").

treatise by Brunetto Latini

medieval religious treatise

set of poems written by Gonzalo de Berceo

Old Norse tale

275 px|thumb|The beginning of ‘‘Gutalagen’’ in the Holm B 64 manuscript.

medieval Spanish literary tale of the life of Alexander the Great

The , also read as Sasekishū, translated into English as Collection of Stone and Sand, is a five-volume collection of Buddhist parables written by the Japanese monk Mujū in 1283 during the Kamakura period.

figure of legend

The text is six volumes in length and contains 462 setsuwa stories many of which focus on monks, the aristocracy, and the imperial palace. It was extremely popular and influenced a number of following collections beginning with the 1219 text Zoku Kojidan and Uji Shūi Monogatari.

imperial waka collection of Japan

Japanese Buddhist treatise by Nichiren

13th-century magical text misattributed to Apollonius of Tyana

book written by Ali b. Isa al-Irbili

book recording grants by King James I

The Marganitha (; ) is a book summarising the doctrine of the Church of the East written by Mar Odisho, Metropolitan of N’siwin and Armenia, in 1298. The website of the Assyrian Church calls the Marganitha the "official manual of the faith of the Church of the East". The explanation of the author for naming the book as Margānītā (Pearl) is as follows: “I […] wrote this book, small in size and brief, but extensive in its subject matter. Hence, I have called it “The Pearl”, the truth of Christianity; and herein I have briefly treated of the origin, roots, plants and branches of the teaching of t

13th-century French Arthurian romance written by William the Clerk

Meliodas or Meliadus is a figure in Arthurian legend in the 12th-century Prose Tristan and subsequent accounts. In Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', he is the second king of Lyonesse, son of Felec of Cornwall and vassal of King Mark. Meliodas' first wife, Elizabeth, who bore the hero Tristan, was Mark's sister, and his second wife was a daughter or sister of Hoel of Brittany. He is the eponymous protagonist of the romance Meliadus. The Italian variant Tristano Riccardiano calls him Felix (Felissi).

official history of the Kingdom of Genoa

Moriaen (also spelled Moriaan, Morion, Morien) is a 14th-century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch. A 4,720-line version is preserved in the vast Lancelot Compilation, and a short fragment exists at the Royal Library at Brussels. The work tells the story of Morien, the Moorish son of Aglovale, one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.