He had a brother also named Jean du Tillet, with whom he collaborated in scholarship. Another brother, Louis, curé of Claix and archdeacon of Angoulême, gave shelter to Jean Calvin, then followed him to Germany; he was very disappointed by what he saw and Jean brought him back to France.[4][5]
He owned the only known manuscript of the Annales Tiliani, which bear his name. It is now lost. He also owned a manuscript of the Libri Carolini, which he was the first to publish in 1549.[6]
Works
Du symbole des Apostres et des douze articles de la foy (1566)[7]
Réponse d'un évêque aux ministres des églises nouvelles (Paris, 1566);
Traité de l'antiquité et solennité de la messe (Paris, 1567);
Avis à Messieurs les gentilhommes séduits par les piperies des églises nouvelles (Advice to the gentlemen seduced by the fallacies of the new churches) (Paris, 1567);
Parallelae de vitis ac moribus paparum cum proecipuis ethnicis (1610) (in Latin).[4]
Misattributed works
The Discours sur la majorité du roi très-chrétien contre les écrits des rebelles, which was published under his name (Paris, 1560), was actually written by his brother Jean, sieur de Bussière.[4]
^Howard, G. (1986). "The Textual Nature of an Old Hebrew Version of Matthew". Journal of Biblical Literature. 105 (1): 49–63. doi:10.2307/3261110. JSTOR3261110.
