RRR:
1100
Other:
Edgington, ‘Administrative Regulations’, pp. 24-36
YEAR:
1182
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT:
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text:
Mar. 14. [173] The maistre de l’ospital and the general chapistre issue regulations for the management of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem and the treatment and diet of the patients. [174] They refer to: the issuing each year of 1500 besants to pay for doctors [mieges] and medicines [amandles]; to the casalia of Mont Gabriel, Sareth, Cuisinat, Sainte Marie, Caphaer and Cole, which are dedicated to providing fruit, bucks, ewes, goats, pigs and chickens [des fruiz et des boucs et des berbis et des chievres et des porcs et des gelines] for the use of the sick; the offices of karavane and karavanier, and bouteillerie and boutellier.
Transaction Type :
INSTITUTION NUMBER:
322
Sources:
Edgington, ‘Administrative Regulations’, pp. 24-36
Comments:
[173] Although strictly speaking the regulations can only be dated to the periods between the acquisition of Cole/Chole (shortly before Dec. 25 1180 – Sept. 10 1181) and Roger’s departure for Europe in June 1184, and between his return to the East in the spring of 1186 and his death on May 1 1187, the reference to a general chapter makes it certain that these were issued at the same time as the Hospitaller statutes of Mar. 14 1182. [174] The regulations should be supplemented by the evidence provided in an important treatise, written in the 1180s by a (possibly) German cleric, who had worked in the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in that period. His description of the Hospital includes references to: the admission of Muslims and Jews as well as Christians; the organization into wards and their staffing; doctors [theorici/phisici] and surgeons [cyrugici]; a mobile field hospital accompanying Christian armies; the treament, diet and feeding of patients; female wards; Hospitaller nuns; an orphanage; and nobles serving for a time out of charity. (Kedar, ‘A Twelfth-Century Description’, pp. 13-26).
GRANTOR:
Roger de Moulins, master of the Hospital, and the general chapter
RECEPIENT:
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
