Request for a friendly reception of Peter Weller and Heinrich Schneidewein on their way to Italy, where they want to study law.
Handwritten in Aurifaber, vol. III, p. 210, printed in Schütze, vol. II, p. 311 and in De Wette, vol. IV, p. 554.
To the in Christ highly venerable brother, Doctor Wenceslaus Link, the extremely faithful servant of the Word at Nuremberg.
Grace and peace! Now I have nothing to write, my dear Wenceslaus, except that I ask you to let these young people, especially Peter Weller and Heinrich Schneidewein, be most diligently recommended to you. They do not desire anything; they are traveling to Italy to learn the law, I suppose also to see Hans von Jenen. They have been my table companions for several years, very pleasant people, if you show yourself cheerful, that is, if you obtain for them that they can see Nuremberg as much as possible, inside and out, and that they may do enough for their Hans von Jene, for that is what they desire most. You will therefore take care that our friends welcome them with you. You may safely trust them, as I do myself, and be quite pleasantly merry with them. Be well in the Lord, and may you say the same to Andreas Osiander, who is extremely dear to me. Since I have so many letters to write, I have not had time to write even a little to him, nor to you in more detail. September 2, 1534.
I) "Hans von Jene" is the personification of boredom and by the popular joke, by taking "Jenen" - yawning, made the emblem of the city of Jena: A head that opens its mouth and snaps at an apple, which an angel on a staff feeds him, but always takes away again, therefore also called "Schnapphans". This picture is above the entrance of the town hall in Jena under the tower clock. Cf. St. Louis edition, vol. XVII, 1079, note 2.
Letters from the year 1534. No. 2079 to 2082.
No. 2079.