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1534 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1534
.
Contents
Events
New books
Poetry
Births
Deaths
References
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
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
[
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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