1534 in literature

none thumb | right | Luther Bible, 1534 1534 literature July 2020 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.David McKitterick A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfttG9tnd5UC 28 September 1992 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-30801-4 35 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 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 printerCharles Henry Timperley 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 ... https://books.google.com/books?id=W5BCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA258 1842 H.G. Bohn 258 References