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DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PLAN

tarii," having one door into the court and another into the church; and his sleeping room, "cubile ejus," with beds, side benches, &c.

To this building is appended a vestibule already mentioned, through which the guests and the scholars can pass in and out through the semicircular cloister of the atrium, or enter into the church itself, "exiet hic hospes vel templi tecta subihit; discentis scolæa pulchra juventa simul."

Hospitium for poor Travellers and Pilgrims[1].

"Domus peregrinorum et pauperum."

This building is very little smaller than the nobler hospitium, and like it is composed of a circumference of chambers enclosing a common room. The chambers consist of a vestibule to the east, flanked by two rooms for the servants who waited upon the pilgrims, "servientium mansiones." On the north and south sides is a "dormitorium," and on the west a chamber, camera," and a "cellarium," between which is a vestibule which leads to a detached building containing under one roof a bakehouse and brewhouse, the arrangement and furniture of which are as nearly as possible identical with those of the larger hospitium. The central space of the paupers' hospitium is surrounded with seats, and in the middle the usual square which is marked in this case "testudo." (It appears probable, as I have already stated, that this space is roofed over, and that the square is the opening in the roof through which light is admitted.) But it is remarkable that this establishment is destitute of a kitchen, and has neither refectory or furniture of any kind indicated in its plan; it is also wanting in the other convenient offices that are attached in such profusion to every other part of the monastic buildings. It may therefore be doubtful whether even a fire was afforded in the central space[2]. Opposite to the hospitium, just described, for poor travellers and pilgrims, there is a vestibule, (mentioned above,) exactly like the northern one, with two entrances through

  1. ↑ This establishment is inscribed "Hic peregrinorum lætetur turba rerepta."
  2. ↑ Keller, indeed, from whose description I have departed in this section, interprets the drawing as if the central square apartment was a court open to the sky, with a bench running round its walls, and the little square in the middle he supposes to be a little roof or pavilion, lint as it would be only about nine feet square, I think this conjecture erroneous.
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