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- 13th c. - Huon of Bordeaux
- ca. 1200 - Nibelungenlied
- 1205 - Lancelot-Grail
- early 13th c.
- Ancrene Wisse
- Farid al-Din Attar - Mantiqu 't-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds)
- Codex Gigas
- Guido delle Colonne - Historia destructionis Troiae
- Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival
- 1212 - Kamo no Chōmei - Hōjōki
- 1214 - Gervase of Tilbury - Otia Imperialia
- ca. 1215 - Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube: Girard de Vienne
- Rumi - diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, masnavi in Persian
- 1220 - Ibn Hammad, Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd
- ca. 1220s - Snorri Sturlusson - Prose Edda
- ca. 1225 - King Horn, the oldest known English verse romance
- ca. 1230
- La Mort le roi Artu, French prose romance
- Guillaume de Lorris - First section of Romance of the Rose
- ca. 1230s - Post-Vulgate Cycle
- ca. 1240 - Rudolf von Ems - Alexanderroman
- mid-13th c. - Doön de Mayence
- 1259 - Bonaventure - Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (Journey of the Mind to God)
- ca. 1260
- Thomas Aquinas - Summa contra Gentiles
- Sa'di - Gulistan, Bustan poets and texts in Persian
- 1263 - Bonaventure - Life of St. Francis of Assisi
- ca. 1270 - Ibn al-Nafis - Theologus Autodidactus
- ca. 1275 - Second section of Romance of the Rose - Jean de Meun
- ca. 1280 - Heinrich der Vogler - Dietrichs Flucht
- ca. 1280s - The Owl and the Nightingale
- 1283 - Ramon Llull - Blanquerna
- 1293 - Dante Alighieri - La Vita Nuova
- ca. 1295 - Mathieu of Boulogne - Liber lamentationum Matheoluli (The Lamentations of Matheolus)
- 1299 - Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo
- ca. 1300 - Gesta Romanorum
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