Jean de Gagny
Jean de Gagny[1](died 1549) was a French theologian.
He was at theCollège de Navarrein 1524.[2]He becameRectorof theUniversity of Paris,in 1531, and Almoner Royal,[3]in 1536. In 1546 he becameChancellor of the University of Paris.[4]
He published some significantRoman Catholiccommentaries on parts of theNew Testament.[5]He was also a business partner of the typographerClaude Garamond,[6]and collector of manuscripts, particularly ofpatristicworks.[2]His position close toFrancis I of Francegave him access to monastic libraries.[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^Also spelled Jean de Gagney, Jean de Gagnée, Gagnaeus, Gagneius.
- ^abTertullian: 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
- ^Tertullian: Jean de Gagny / Martin Mesnart (B) (1545)
- ^Farge, James K. (2003). "Jean de Gaigny".Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation.University of Toronto Press.p. 71.
- ^Biblical Interpretation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries(PDF), p. 10.Archived2011-07-13 at theWayback Machine
- ^Allan Haley,Typographic Milestones(1992), p. 27.
- ^James P. Carley, Pierre PetitmenginPre-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,=Anglo-Saxon England33 (2004), 195–223.
