This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1507.
Events August 26 – Following the death of Jean Molinet (see Deaths section), Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy. September 15 – King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.The Register Of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 15 September 1507. Scottish National Archives.
New books Prose Matthias Ringmann (probably) – Cosmographiae Introductio (to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map) Francesco Spinacino – (earliest known published scores for lute)
Poetry
Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur Baptista Mantuanus Mantuan Georgius (Charge and exhortation over the arms of infidels against Christian potentates) Parthenese Jean Marot – Le Voyage de Gênes
Births January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568) April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer (died 1577) June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)
Deaths July 5 – (Petrus) Crinitus (Pietro Crinito), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474) August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435) November 6 – Pietro Casola, travel writer (born 1427)
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