1534 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1534.
Events
- July 20 â 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.[1]
- 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 â La Novelle Natura Brevium
- François Rabelais (as Alcofribas Nasier) â Gargantua (La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel)
- Polydore Vergil â Historia Anglica
- Juan Luis Vives â De conscribendis epistolis
- Syed Shah Israil â MaÊ¿dan al-FawÄʾid in Persian
Poetry
Births
- April 18 â William Harrison, clergyman and writer (died 1593)
- October 18 â Jean Passerat, poet and satirist (died 1602)
Deaths
- November 23 â Otto Brunfels, German botanist and theologian (born 1488)
- Unknown dates
- Cesare Magni, Italian printer
- Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer[2]