1541 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1541. Events Late August – Siege of Buda: Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet Gül Baba, companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, believed killed or died during or immediately after the Ottoman relief of Buda. Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish. unknown dates The Gustav Vasa Bible, the first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish, Biblia, Thet är All then Helgha Scrifft på Swensko, is published in Upsala. The first complete translation of the New Testament into Hungarian, Újszövetség, is the first book printed in Hungary, at Sárvár. John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French as L'Institution chrétienne. New books Prose George Buchanan Baptistes Jephtha Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh –