The twenty texts in the Middle Low German component of the CHLG represent a subset of the texts in the Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch (1200–1650) (ReN).
The aim was for this subset to be as representative as possible with respect to scribal dialect, date and genre, given the historical attestation:
| Full text name | Text ID | Dialect | Date | Genre | Number of words | Number of sentence tokens (CHLG-0.9) | Number of sentence tokens (CHLG-1.0) | Other comments |
| Abdinghofer Arzneibuch | arznei | Westphalian (WP) | 1451-1500 | Science | 17,510 | 1,770 | 1,759 | Pharmacopoeia from Abdinghof monastery, Paderborn |
| Braunschweiger Urkunden | braunschweig | Eastphalian (EP) | 1301-1500 | Charter | 2,593 | 110 | 110 | Collection of charters from Braunschweig |
| Bremer Urkunden | bremen | North Low Saxon (NLS) | 1300-1350 | Charter | 1,991 | 48 | 48 | Collection of charters from Bremen |
| Buxtehuder Evangeliar | buxtehude | North Low Saxon (NLS) | 1451-1500 | Religion | 21,223 | 2,038 | 2,038 | Liturgical book containing passages from the gospels from the town of Buxthude |
| Duderstadt, Braunschweiger Stadtrecht I | duder1 | Eastphalian (EP) | 1279 | Law | 2,955 | 133 | 133 | Details the rights, obligations and privileges of citizens of Braunschweig |
| Duderstadt, Braunschweiger Stadtrecht 2 | duder2 | Eastphalian (EP) | 1279 | Law | 3,244 | 132 | 132 | Details the rights, obligations and privileges of citizens of Braunschweig |
| Engelhus, Chronica Nova | engelhus | Eastphalian (EP) | 1435 | Literature | 17,875 | 1,523 | 1,521 | Details the history of the world through biblical, classical and contemporary times |
| Flos unde Blankeflos | flos | East Elbian (EE) | 1401-1450 | Literature | 9,551 | 1,019 | 1,020 | Adaptation of the Old French romance Floire et Blanchefleur |
| Greifswalder Bürgersprache | greifswald | East Elbian (EE) | 1451 | Law | 3,441 | 148 | 148 | Collection of regulations and instructions of the city council of Greifswald |
| Griseldis | griseldis | North Low Saxon (NLS) | 1502 | Literature | 9,801 | 537 | 538 | Tells the story of the medieval fictional heroine Griseldis, followed by the story of Ancredus (Tancredi) |
| Herforder Rechtsbuch | herford | Westphalian (WP) | 1375 | Law | 15,885 | 830 | 820 | Details the rights, obligations and privileges of citizens of Herford |
| Oldenburger Urkunden | oldenburg | North Low Saxon (NLS) | 1350-1500 | Charter | 12,919 | 231 | 222 | Collection of charters from Oldenburg |
| Rostocker Bürgersprache | rostock | East Elbian (EE) | 1580 | Law | 1,233 | 44 | 45 | Collection of regulations and instructions of the city council of Rostock |
| Rüthen, Statutarecht | ruethen | Westphalian (WP) | 1300 | Law | 6,759 | 265 | 265 | Details the rights, obligations and privileges of citizens of Rüthen |
| Schweriner Stadtbuch | schwerin | East Elbian (EE) | 1451-1500 | Administration | 5,342 | 327 | 327 | Details the legal orders of the city administration of Schwerin |
| Soest, Schrae im Statutenbuch | soest | Westphalian (WP) | 1367 | Law | 8,770 | 262 | 262 | Details the rights, obligations and privileges of citizens of Soest |
| Spieghel der Leyen | spieghel | Westphalian (WP) | 1444 | Religion | 24,399 | 1,433 | 1,424 | Theological lay literature which discusses sin and suffering |
| Stralsunder Urkunden | stralsund | East Elbian (EE) | 1301-1500 | Charter | 11,262 | 314 | 313 | Collection of charters from Stralsund |
| Agneta Willeken | willeken | North Low Saxon (NLS) | 1535 | Private letter | 2,406 | 188 | 188 | Private letter written by Agneta Willeken, |
| Helmstedt, Zeno | zeno | Eastphalian (EP) | 1401-1450 | Literature | 8,323 | 832 | 827 | Tells the story of Saint Zeno of Verona |