[1273] Cod. Monac. germ., 4842, Bl. 2. Cp. above, p. 242.
[1274] Ed. Reithmeier, p. 2, 165.
[1275] N. Paulus, “Die deutschen Dominikaner,” p. 63.—What the Catholics thought will be better understood when we remember that even H. Bullinger, in his “History of the Reformation” (ed. Hottinger and Vœgeli, 2, Frauenfeld, 1838, p. 239), says of Luther’s “Kurtz Bekentnis” of 1544: “Although he had previously written much that was illogical, insulting and even blasphemous, yet he outdoes himself in the shameful, wanton and offensive words he uses in this booklet. He bursts for very devils ... and acts like a man possessed.”
[1276] “KG.,” ed. Gams, 3, 1868, p. 105 f.
[1277] Letter of May 9, 1518, “Briefwechsel,” 1, p. 188.
[1278] Ed. Friedensburg (“Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland,” 1533-1559, vol. i.), p. 541, report on Nov. 13, 1535.
[1279] Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 518.
[1280] “Melanchthoniana,” ed. O. Waltz (“Zeitschr. f. KG.,” 4, 1880, p. 324 ff.; see also above, vol. i., p. 279, n. 2.) According to Erasmus Alber, a personal acquaintance, friend and admirer of Luther’s, the latter had a “fine, open and brave countenance and hawk’s eyes.” Cp. Alber, “Wider die verfluchte Lehre der Carlstadter,” Bl. f. 3 ff.; see Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 518.
[1281] “Reichstagsakten unter Kaiser Karl V,” 2, p. 632: “en los ojos no ben señalado.”
[1282] According to Myconius, “Historia Reformationis,” p. 30 sq. (written after 1541). Cordatus, “Tagebuch,” p. 97: “Cardinalis Augustæ dixit de me: iste frater habet profundos oculos, ideo et mirabiles phantasias in capite habet.”