Literature year 1507
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 Martin Waldseemüller uses the name America for the first time on his world map .
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 Petermann Etterlin publishes a Swiss chronicle .
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Events
Codices
Hans Pfeil publishes the Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis ( Bamberg Embarrassing Neck Court Order ), which was created by Johann Freiherr zu Schwarzenberg on behalf of his Bishop Georg III. Schenk von Limpurg drafted the neck court order for Bamberg . In addition to substantive criminal law, it also regulates procedural law , whereby the embarrassing questioning to obtain confessions is constitutively included. It is shaped by the ideas of Italian law schools ( Roman law ) and is the basis for the later Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of Emperor Charles V of 1532.
Historical works
Petermann Etterlin , son of the Lucerne town clerk, publishes a printed Swiss chronicle . This is later criticized for its "French-friendly attitude".
Fracanzano da Montalboddo publishes the anthology Paesi novamente retrovati in Vicenza , the first comprehensive, printed collection of early modern discovery reports. Among other things, the work Libretto de tutta la navigatione de Re de Spagna de le Isole et terreni novamente trovati by Petrus Martyr von Anghiera from 1504 has been incorporated into the collection.
The annals of Tacitus are rediscovered in Corvey Monastery . It contains, among other things, sections on the Varus Battle and the Cheruscan Arminius .
cartography
The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller creates a world map with the help of his partner Matthias Ringmann . She's with a terrestrial globe and an inscription ( Cosmographiae Introductio ) to consider as a three-part project, the Waldseemuller the Latin name Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei parks Traditions et Americi Vespucii aliorumque loss rationes ( full cosmography according to the tradition of Ptolemy and after Amerigo Vespucci and by other figures ) gives. At Ringmann's suggestion, the two scholars name the newly discovered countries in the west after the first name of Amerigo Vespucci, which is the first time that America appears on a map for the continent.
religion
- The Otmar Bible is printed.
Born
- Konrad Hubert , Lutheran theologian, hymn composer and reformer († 1577 )
Died
- July 8 : Anna Notaras , Byzantine noblewoman, member of the Greek community in exile in Venice and patron for the collection and printing of liturgical and ancient Greek writings (* before 1453)
- July 29th : Martin Behaim , German cloth merchant and cosmographer (* 1459 )
- August 23 : Jean Molinet , Franco-Flemish poet, composer and chronicler (* 1435 )
- shortly after August 31: Ulrich Zell , Cologne printer
- December 15 : Aleidis Raiscop , German Benedictine and writer (* 1449 )
- Paolo Santonino , Italian lawyer and author
