This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1534.
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.[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 – 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
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[2]
References
- ^ 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. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-521-30801-4.
- ^ 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. p. 258.
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