this building in the angle of the monastery, and its complete isolation from the surrounding dwellings, appears explained by this conjecture[1].
Physic Garden.
Immediately behind the residence of the physicians, in the north-eastern angle of the monastery, is the physic garden, "herbularius." This is laid out with sixteen beds, each of which has the name of some herb inscribed upon it, according to the following list, to which I have added the English names: Menta, Peppermint; Rosmarino, Rosemary; Lilium, White Lily; Salvia, Sage; Ruta, Rue; Gladiola, Cornflag; Pulegium, Pennyroyal; Fenugræca, Fenugreek; Rosas, Rose; Sisimbria, Watercress (or Radish?); Cumino, Cummin; Lubestico, Lovage; Feniculum, Fennel; Costo, Tansy; Fasiolo, Kidney Bean; Sataregia, Savory.
The Infirmary.
On the north side of the novices' convent, and separated from it by the double church, stands the infirmary, which in its arrangement and extent corresponds exactly with that convent, as I have already mentioned, and as the inscription tells us: "Fratribus infirmis pariter locus iste paretur."
The chamber, the refectory, the master's house, the dormitory and the pisalis, respectively occupy places that correspond exactly to those of the same apartments in the novices' convent, and the two churches and the cloister are also similar. The only difference is that the room which in the novices' convent is given to their sick, and marked "infirmorum domus," is in the infirmary assigned to those who are very ill, "locus valde infirmorum." However it must be remembered that the infirmary was a residence for infirm and superannuated monks as well as for sick monks. Their kitchen, "coquina eonundem et sanguinem minuentium," is removed several steps from the infirmary and to the west of the refectory. It contains also a place for those who are to be bled. The kitchen, as well as the bath-room adjoining it, "balnearum domus,"
- ↑ Keller here observes, that the middle space, and the quadrangle in the centre of it, may either indicate a chamber with a large table or a fireplace, or on the other hand an inner open space enclosed by a hall, or lastly a court with a little house in the midst. Compare the similar quadrants in the hospitium, the outer school, the gardener's house, &c.
