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
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