15th century in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 15th century. Events 1403 – A guild of stationers is founded in the City of London. As the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), it continues to be a Livery Company in the 21st century. 1403–08 – The Yongle Encyclopedia is written in China. –11 – An Leabhar Breac is probably compiled by Murchadh Ó Cuindlis at Duniry in Ireland. – John, Duke of Berry, commissions the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, illustrated by the Limbourg brothers between and 1416. 1424 – The first French royal library is transferred by the English regent of France, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, to England. 1425 – At about this date the first Guildhall Library (probably for theology) is established in the City of London under the will of Richard Whittington. 1434 – Japanese Noh actor and playwright Zeami Motokiyo is exiled to Sado Island by the Shōgun. 1438: 28 April – Completion of Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe, the first known English autobiography, begins (by dictation) at Bishop's Lynn in England; it will not be published in full until 1940. 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, arrives at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet. 1443 – King Sejong the Great establishes Hangul as the native alphabet of Korean.