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Charlemagne 149 The Codex Carolinus is a collection, made by Charlemagne's orders, of the letters addressed to him and his father by the popes. (It may be found in JAFFE, Bibliotheca rerum Germanicarum and better in the Monumental) From the diverting tales of Charlemagne, told by the Monk of The Monk St. Gall, seventy years after the emperor's death, we can form an idea of St - Gal1 of the fabulous proportions which that hero had already assumed in the minds of posterity. (In the Monumenta ; newer edition in JAFFE, Bibliotheca rerttm Germanicarum, Vol. IV ; translated in the Geschicht- schreiber and in Guizot's Collection^) GASTON PARIS, Histoire poetique de Charlemagne, gives a scientific analysis of the origin and development of the mediaeval Carolingian legend. The best source for Alcuin's life and work is his correspondence, edited by JAFFE, Bibliotheca rerum Germanicarum^ Vol. VI.