Abstract
The author concentrates on the written documents related to the trade in agriculture and craft products and in raw materials in the Czech Lands in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. The first group of documents includes mainly custums orders and privileges issued to bost the trade, trading orders and statutes The specific trading activities can be found predominantly in the promissory notes documented from the XIIIth century, and the municipal books from the XIVth century.
From the second half of the XIVth century the proves of private merchant books usage are available. The usage of receipts and bonds is documented only at the end of the Middle Ages.
The promissory notes have been known in the Czech Lands only at the end of the XVth century, but their usage wasn't widel spread.