1534 in literature

Events

• July 20 – Cambridge University Press is granted a royal charter by King Henry VIII of England to print "all manner of books" and becomes the first of the privileged presses.
• unknown dates
  • Luther Bible: Martin Luther's Biblia: das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch, a translation of the complete Bible into German is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, including woodcut illustrations.
  • Rabbi Asher Anchel's Mirkevet ha-Mishneh (a Tanakh concordance) becomes the first book printed in Yiddish (in Kraków).

New books

• Anthony Fitzherbert – La Novelle Natura Brevium
• François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) – Gargantua (La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel)
• Polydore Vergil – Historia Anglica
• Juan Luis Vives – De conscribendis epistolis
• Syed Shah Israil – Maʿdan al-Fawāʾid in Persian

Poetry

Main article: 1534 in poetry

Births

• April 18 – William Harrison, clergyman and writer (died 1593)
• October 18 – Jean Passerat, poet and satirist (died 1602)

Deaths

• November 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist and theologian (born 1488)
• Unknown dates
  • Cesare Magni, Italian printer
  • Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer

References

References

1. David McKitterick. (28 September 1992). "A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698". Cambridge University Press.
2. Charles Henry Timperley. (1842). "Encyclopedia of Literary and Typograpical Anecdote: Being a Chronological Digest of the Most Interesting Facts Illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...". H.G. Bohn.