1534 in literature
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 becomes the first book printed in Yiddish.
New books
- Anthony Fitzherbert – La Novelle Natura Brevium
- François Rabelais – Gargantua
- Polydore Vergil – Historia Anglica
- Juan Luis Vives – De conscribendis epistolis
- Syed Shah Israil – Maʿdan al-Fawāʾid in Persian
Births
- April 18 – William Harrison, clergyman and writer
- October 18 – Jean Passerat, poet and satirist
Deaths
- November 23 – Otto Brunfels, German botanist and theologian
- Unknown dates
- *Cesare Magni, Italian printer
- *Wynkyn de Worde, Lotharingian-born English printer