Jean de Gagny

Jean de Gagny [Jean de Gagney, Jean de Gagnée, Gagnaeus, Gagneius.] (died 1549) was a French theologian.

He was at the Collège de Navarre in 1524 [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 ] ] . He became Rector of the University of Paris, in 1531, and Almoner Royal [ [http://www.tertullian.org/editions/mesnart.htm Tertullian: Jean de Gagny / Martin Mesnart (B) (1545) ] ] , in 1536.

He published some significant Roman Catholic commentaries on parts of the "New Testament" [ [http://www.ivpress.com/title/exc/2927-1.pdf "Biblical Interpretation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (PDF), p. 10.] ] . He was also a business partner of the typographer Claude Garamond [Allan Haley, "Typographic Milestones" (1992), p. 27.] , and collector of manuscripts, particularly of patristic works.. His position close to Francois I of France gave him access to monastic libraries [ [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] , = "Anglo-Saxon England" 33 (2004), 195–223.] .

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