‘
who
never
tired
of
lending
me
a
helping
hand.’
He
is
especially
grateful
to
the
then
Prefect
of
the
Vatican
Archives
who
enabled
him
to
trace
and
placed
at
his
disposal
eight
documents
(s.
Pertz.
archiv
9,
449)
relating
to
Eckhart
and
of
much
importance
‘
as
showing
the
relations
of
Eckhart
with
the
Church,
his
position
with
regard
to
the
Archbishop
of
Cologne
and
the
justification
of
the
latter
for
setting
in
motion
the
Inquisition
against
him,
as
well
as
for
the
history
of
the
powerful
spiritual
movement
which
at
the
beginning
of
the
fourteenth
century
took
place
on
the
Rhine.’
All
these
documents
he
reserves
for
his
projected
volume
of
Notes,
with
the
cxce])tiori
of
one
short
quotation
from
Eckliart’s
Declara-
tion
at
Cologne,
13
Feb.
1327.
This,
together
with
other
relevant
documents,
was
afterwards
published
by
Preger
at
the
end
of
the
first
volume
of
his
Geschichie
der
deutschen
Mi/stik,
