Literature year 1514

Literature year 1514
The Salbuch of the Naumburg Monastery is created.

Events

Upper half of the first page of the Viri Mathematici

April 13 : Georg Tannstetter publishes the work Viri Mathematici quos inclytum Viennense gymnasium ordine celebres habuit . In this early approach to the history of science , the astronomers and mathematicians who worked in Vienna from 1384 to this point in time are presented in detail. Tannstetter presents extensive lists of her works for five of them, namely Johannes von Gmunden , Georg von Peuerbach , Johannes Regiomontanus , Johannes Stabius and Andreas Stiborius - the books in his library are also mentioned of the latter. A total of around 170 book titles appear in the Viri Mathematici on predominantly mathematical and astronomical subjects.

The Bundchu

In the work Der Bundtschu the printer Pamphilus Gengenbach reports on the Bundschuh movement and the peasant uprising under Joß Fritz .
Symphorien Champier wrote Periarchon, id est de principiis Platonicarum disciplinarum omniumque doctrinarum .

Murner with Christ as lifeguard

The Franciscan Thomas Murner , poeta laureatus of 1505 , publishes the work Ein andechtig Geistliche Badenfahrt . In it he describes a symbolic spa treatment in which Jesus Christ is depicted as a lifeguard, Murner as a patient and the bath as an allegory for penance.

Prayer to St. George
with a sketch
by Albrecht Dürer

The Prayer Book of Maximilian I is the imperial Hofdrucker Johann Schönsperger d. Ä. printed on parchment in Augsburg . The prayer book contains a collection of various psalms , hymns , gospels and prayers in Latin. At Maximilian's request , the print, which was designed by Vinzenz Rockner based on templates from the imperial chancellery , is similar to a handwriting . The font is considered to be the preliminary stage of the Fraktur . The printed typeface is complemented by hand-made flourishes. The colored lines and the partially painted initials underline the impression of handwriting. Ten copies are being printed, five of which are still preserved today. A single copy is provided with marginal drawings by seven leading artists of the time, including Hans Burgkmair , Hans Baldung , Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. , Albrecht Altdorfer and Albrecht Dürer .

Joachim von Watt

March 12 : Joachim von Watt from St. Gallen receives the poet's crown from Emperor Maximilian I as poeta laureatus .

Extract from Matthias von Miechow's library catalog

May 1 : The geographer and historian Matthias von Miechow compiles a library directory for the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow.
The richly illustrated Salbuch of the Naumburg Monastery is created.

The Braunschweig chronicler Hermann Bote wrote the shift book around 1514 . In it he reports on the Brunswick classes , especially the uprising of 1488 under Ludeke Hollant , which he witnessed himself.

January 1 : Erasmus Flock , German mathematician, astronomer, poet and physician († 1568 )
February 22nd : Johannes Gigas , German reformer, hymn poet, humanist and teacher († 1581 )
March 23 : Lorenzino de 'Medici , Italian writer, member of the Medici family († 1548 )

June 24 : Johann Baumgart , German Lutheran theologian, hymn poet and school dramatist († 1578 )
July 19 : Michael Toxites , German poet, teacher, physician and editor of medical and alchemical writings († 1581 )

7 March : Řehoř Hrubý z Jelení , Bohemian writer, translator and humanist (* around 1460 )
March 21 : Johannes Brassicanus , German scholar, humanist and grammarian (* after 1475)