Aachen
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Imperial city of the Franks. Charlemagne crowned his son Louis there, then devoted himself to sacred Letters and corrected the four Gospels near death. Charlemagne's codex is reverently preserved at Aachen.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Charlemagne crowned his son Louis at Aachen, then devoted himself to the sacred Letters and corrected the four Gospels
"having crowned his son Louis at Aachen, gave himself entirely to prayers, almsgiving, and the sacred Letters"
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Charlemagne's codex is reverently preserved at Aachen
"Rightly therefore Charlemagne's codex is reverently preserved at Aachen, as I myself have seen"