With the Council of Toulouse, the church had banned possession of either the Old or New Testaments including any translations. So Eck was arguing out of the side of his mouth.
ITEM #2 COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE - 1229 A.D.
"Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament... we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books."
So you see the church had banned Phylacteries for the Jewish People and stacked the deck against the common man.
It was clearly a time for Reformation back to the Word of God.
From http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?p=201060
Here is the WHOLE canon number 14 of the COUNCIL OF TOULOUSE (a local council, it appears, not ecumenical).
“14. Forbids the laity to have in their possession any copy of the books of the Old and New Testament (except the Psalter, and such portions of them as are contained in the Breviary, or the Hours of the blessed Virgin), most strictly forbids these works in the vulgar tongue.”
Landon, E. H. (1909). Vol. 2: A Manual of Councils of the Holy Catholic Church (172). Edinburgh: John Grant.
“So as you see it was not the possession of the whole bible but of SINGLE BOOKS of the bible that was prohibited, the psalter (i.e the psalms) was allowed. The creation of any of these books in the vulgar tongue was prohibited to prevent poor and heretical translations.”