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108 DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PLAN iar'iir liaving one door into the court and another into the church ; and his sleeping room, " cuhile 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 Mc Jiospes vel tcmpli fecfa sub- ihit ; discentis scola j)fdcJira juventa simul. HOSPITIUM EOR POOR TRAVELLERS AND PiLGRIMSy. " Domus peregrhwrum et paupemm." This building is very little smaller than the nobler hospi- tium, and like it is composed of a circumference of chambers enclosing a common room. The chambers consist of a vesti- bule to the east, flanked by two rooms for the servants who waited upon the pilgrims, " scrvientium. mansiones!' On the north and south sides is a dormitorium," and on the west a chamber, camera," and a ceJIarimn," between Avhich is a ves- tibule 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 pau- pers' hospitium is surrounded with seats, and in the middle the usual square which is marked in this case " tesfudo." (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 wantino: in the other convenient offices that are attached in su€h profusion to every other part of the monastic build- ings. It may therefore be doubtful whether even a fire Avas afforded in the central space ^ Opposite to the hospitium, just described, for poor travel- lers and pilgrims, there is a vestibule, (mentioned above,) exactly like the northern one, Avith two entrances thr.ough y This establishment is inscribed " Hie bench running round its walls, and t1ie jjcregrinorum IrPtetiir turha rerepta." little square in the middle he supposes to ■^ Keller, indeed, from whose description be a little roof or pavilion, lint as it I have departed in this section, interprets would be only about nine feet square, I the drawing as if the central square apart- think tins conjecture erroneous, ment was a court open to the sky, with a