1534 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1534.

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

Main article: 1534 in poetry

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