1508 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508. Events April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh. unknown date The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish. Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. New books Prose Desiderius Erasmus – Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice) Johannes Trithemius – De septem secundeis