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Treatise

On the highly

useful inventions

and arts, which have been invented

and brought to light by the laudable

German nation.

The First Chapter.

On the first true,

universal, and political invention

and praise of the German

nation.

Namely, the Roman Empire and Monarchy, which the highly laudable German nation, through Emperor Carolus Magnus Charlemagne, a born German, brought upon itself and acquired, not through the handing over and