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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.
  • 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

References