1512 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1512.

Events

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Urbatagirk ({{langx|hy|Ուրբաթագիրք}}, "The Book of Friday"), the first printed book in the Armenian language, is printed in Venice by Hakob Meghapart.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11302/ |title=The Book of Fridays |work=World Digital Library |year=1512 |accessdate=2013-06-01}}{{Cite web |publisher=National Library of Armenia |title=Hagop Meghapart Project |url=http://nla.am/arm/meghapart/Arm/1512.htm |language=Armenian |accessdate=2015-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084535/http://nla.am/arm/meghapart/Arm/1512.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead}}
The concept of the masque is brought to Britain by King Henry VIII of England.{{cite book|author=Stanley Hochman|title=McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88xIQiXVMCQC&pg=PA242|year=1984|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-07-079169-5|pages=242}}

Desiderius Erasmus – Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (De Utraque Verborum ac Rerum Copia)
Henry Medwall – Fulgens and Lucrece
Huldrych Zwingli – De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio
Il-yeon – The Samguk Yusa (Korean)

Hieronymus Angerianus – Erotopaegnion
Stephen Hawes – The Comfort of Lovers{{Cite web |url=http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html |publisher=Academic Text Service (ATS), Stanford University Library |work=Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database |title=Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603 |accessdate=2009-09-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071217/http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html |archivedate=2011-06-08 |url-status=dead}}
Thomas Murner{{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Calvin |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_n9EPAAAAMAAJ |title=A History of German Literature |location=New York |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |year=1909 |accessdate=2009-12-14}}
Schelmenzunft (Guild of Rogues)
Narrenbeschwörung (Muster of Fools)

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Syr Degore (written pre-1325){{Cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}