This letter, written in Latin and generally referred to by scholars as the Epistola de litteris colendis (“An epistle concerning the cultivation of learning”), was an exhortation by Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, to the Abbot Baugualf of Fulda, a town in Germany, and other clerics in the diocese. In the letter, Charlemagne expresses his concerns about the literacy of the monks and priests at a time when many were illiterate or only partially literate. He exhorts the clerics to take care with the accuracy of their writing to ensure that they do not allow errors in the interpretation of scripture to creep into their pronouncements.