1534 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1534.
Contents
Events
- 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.
- 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.
- Rabbi Asher Anchel's Mirkevet ha-Mishneh (a Tanakh concordance) is 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
Poetry
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Births
- April 18 - William Harrison, clergyman and writer (died 1593)
- October 18 - Jean Passerat, poet and satirist (died 1602)
Deaths
- date unknown
- Cesare Magni, Italian printer
- Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer