All Medieval Historical Documents

Browse our up-to-date collection of medieval documents and illuminated manuscripts available for purchase, spanning Early, High, and Late Middle Ages, and even the early Renaissance. These pieces trace the intellectual changes and regional conflicts that shaped the course of western history.

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From One of the Great Texts of Classical Antiquity: Cicero’s De Officiis

Early 15th Century ^$11,000

From an Early 15th Century Glittering Manuscript Book of Hours, A Gorgeous Miniature from the Workshop of the Great Parisian Artist, the ‘Bedford Master’, Likely Created...

1420 ^$6,500

An Early, Petite Devotional Manuscript Book of Hours Painted in Bruges at the Beginning of the 15th century, Perhaps Owned by a Patron with Connections to Bologna

1400 ^$40,000

Estate Planning in Renaissance Italy, Signed by a Judge, Who Issued a Complex Opinion on the Validity of a Bequest

1470-1485 ^$2,500

Two leaves from William of Moerbeke’s crucial translation of Aristotle’s Politics from Greek into Latin, an important step in the recovery of this rare text by Western...

13th Century, Second Half ^$9,500

A Remarkable Tenth Century Manuscript from the Cultural Renaissance Brought on by Charlemagne, from an Early Collectarium

10th Century ^$14,500

A Rare Medieval Computational Cipher, a Computus Text, Along with a Poetic Device to Aid in Its Use, Employed by a 15th Century Clergyman in the Calculation of Easter

15th century ^$16,500

From One of the Great Works of the Era of Dantean Literature in Late Medieval Italy and Its Humanist Era

1450 ^$15,000

From 1359, a Rare Northern England Land Charter from a Religious Guild & Landholding Fraternity

July 20^th, 1359 ^$3,500

A Debt Paid with Ties to Myles Standish, Alchemy, and the Hundred Years War: Lancashire Indenture in Latin, Dated 1422

April 12^th, 1422 ^$6,000

Rare Book from the Library of the New World Missionary School in Portugal, Signed by Its Rector and Educator to these Explorers, Just Decades After Columbus Crossed the Atlantic

1536 ^$15,000

During the Reign of King Henry III of England, in the 1230s: A Fascinating, Elegant Legal Manuscript Showing the Complicated Relationship Between a Once-Great Medieval Abbey and...

1232 ^$6,000

Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britain: An Historic Illumination From a Now Lost 15th Century Work

15th Century, Second Half ^$18,500

Two Leaves from the Roman de la Rose, 14th century, Which Defined Love and Literature in the Western World

14th Century, Second Half ^$40,000

A Medieval 12th Century Depiction of a Saint, Likely Created in Southern France

12th Century ^$6,000

A Medieval 12th Century Illustration of a French Hunter, His Dog, and Their Catch: A Hare

12th Century ^$10,500

A Provocative Late Medieval Portrait of English Dominican Friar, from the 15th Century

1420 ^$6,000

An Uncommon Early Form of Pre-Stave Medieval Music, Neumes (Groups of Musical Marks), from Twelfth Century Italy

12th Century ^$4,600

“Do good, O Lord, to those that are good”: Ex-Otto Ege

1475 ^$2,500

From the Sermons of Pope Gregory the Great, Who Brought Post-Roman Christianity to the British Isles, Written in 11th Century Italy

11th Century, Second Half ^$14,500

From the “Bohun Bible”, Likely Commissioned by the Black Prince, 14th Century England

1350 ^$4,000

A Rare Manuscript from Livy’s Seminal Work: From a 15th c. copy of the History of Rome

^$4,600

The European Rediscovery of Aristotle: Oxford, 13th Century

Late 13th Century ^$14,000

Peter Lombard’s Sentences: Five 13th Century Leaves from the Textbook for the Divine

13th Century ^$7,500

Becoming an Imperial Count Palatine, A Grand, Golden Document Signed by Prominent Citizens of Padua in 1585

September 25^th, 1585 ^$4,000

The Words of Saint Ambrose, Written from Southern Italy, Montecassino, in the 11th Century

Late 11th Century ^$3,700

Shakespeare’s ‘Once More Unto the Breach:’ The Real Life Messenger of Harfleur and Agincourt Brings Urgent Word to the French Crown of the Peril from the Forces...

September 16^th, 1415 ^$75,000

The Definitive Blow of the Hundred Years War: A Commander in the Final Major Battle of the French “Conquest of Normandy” in 1450, Which Ended the War, Receives His...

October 18^th, 1450 ^$15,000

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