Jean de Gagny explained

Jean de Gagny^[1] (died 1549) was a French theologian.

He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524.^[2] He became Rector of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal,^[3] in 1536. In 1546 he became Chancellor of the University of Paris.^[4]

He published some significant Roman Catholic commentaries on parts of the New Testament.^[5] He was also a business partner of the typographer Claude Garamond,^[6] and collector of manuscripts, particularly of patristic works.^[2] His position close to Francis I of France gave him access to monastic libraries.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Also spelled Jean de Gagney, Jean de Gagnée, Gagnaeus, Gagneius.
2. http://www.tertullian.org/articles/hunt_need_for_a_guide.htm Tertullian: R.W.Hunt, The Need for a Guide to the Editors of Patristic Texts in the 16th Century, Studia Patristica XVII.1 (1982), pp.365–371
3. http://www.tertullian.org/editions/mesnart.htm Tertullian: Jean de Gagny / Martin Mesnart (B) (1545)
4. Book: Farge, James K.. Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. 71. Jean de Gaigny. 2003. University of Toronto Press.
5. http://www.ivpress.com/title/exc/2927-1.pdf Biblical Interpretation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (PDF), p. 10.
6. Allan Haley, Typographic Milestones (1992), p. 27.
7. http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FASE%2FASE33%2FS0263675104000079a.pdf&code=85046f32031c3a9401f7ea49a2a202a6 James P. Carley, Pierre Petitmengin Pre-Conquest manuscripts from Malmesbury Abbey and John Leland's letter to Beatus Rhenanus concerning a lost copy of Tertullian's works (PDF), pp. 5–7