14th century in literature

14th century in literature

"See also:" 13th century in literature, other events of the 14th century, 15th century in literature, list of years in literature.__TOC__

Events

*c.1330 - Production of the Macclesfield Psalter.
*1331 - Production of the Nuremberg Mahzor.
*1377 - Production of the earliest known copy of the Laurentian Codex.
*1382 - Earliest recorded appearance of Wyclif's Bible.
*1390 - Production of the Book of Ballymote.
*1390s - Production of the Yellow Book of Lecan.
*1397 - Kiev Psalter of 1397

New books

* ca. 1300
**"Gesta Romanorum", anon.
**Marguerite Porete - "The Mirror of Simple Souls"
* ca. 1320-1330
**Jacob of Liège – "Speculum musicae"
* 1321
**Dante Alighieri - "The Divine Comedy"
* 1322
**Robert of Basevorn - "The Form of Preaching" (date of first known MS)
* ca. 1330-1340 - "Perceforest"
*1340
**"Ayenbite of Inwyt"
* ca. 1350
**"The Tale of Gamelyn" (anonymous)
* 1353
**Giovanni Boccaccio - "The Decameron"
* 1369
**Geoffrey Chaucer - "The Book of the Duchess"
* 1371
**"The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" (anonymous)
**Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry - "The Book of the Knight of the Tower"
* 1375
**John Barbour - "The Bruce"
* 1382
**Jacobus de Teramo - "Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum"
* 1390
**John Gower - "Confessio Amantis"
* 1390s
**Geoffrey Chaucer "Canterbury Tales"
**Julian of Norwich — "Revelations of Divine Love"
**Sayana's commentary on the Vedas.
**"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
**"South English Legendary"

Births

* 1304 - Francesco Petrarca, later known as Petrarch.
* 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio.
*1320 - Lalleshwari, Hindu poet
* 1343 - Geoffrey Chaucer.

Deaths

* 1306 - Adam de la Halle
* 1316 (probable) - Ramon Llull
* September 14, 1321 - Dante Alighieri
* 1364 - Ranulf Higden, chronicler
* July 18, 1374 - Petrarch
* December 21, 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio
* April, 1377 - Guillaume de Machaut
*1392 - Lalleshwari
* 1395 - John Barbour
* October 25, 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer


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