initiator: Roger de Moulins, master of the Hospital
recipient: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: Mar 14. Jerusalem. In the Hospital of St John. In the general chapter of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Rogier/Rogerius serf des poures de Crist/servus pauperum Jhesu Christi promulgates statutes dealing with the duties of the conventual prior and local commanders, the provision of physicians, the treatment of male and female patients, the ward duties of the brothers and servants, and the provision of materials for the Hospital in Jerusalem by the European provinces and by officers in the Latin East. Of the latter, the bailli/baylivus of Antioch should send 2,000 canes/brachia of cotton for making bed coverlets, and the prior of Mont Pèlerin and the bailli/baylivus of Tiberias should each send 2 quintaus/quintalia of sugar for making lectuaries and medicines. An appendix, issued after frère/frater Rogier/Rogerius de Molinis maistre/magister and frater Bernardus prior had heard testimony, lists customary regulations for the treatment of patients, including children, for the duties of the frere corvoisier and the aumonier/elemosinarius, for prayers for benefactors and for alms-giving.Mar 14. Jerusalem. In the Hospital of St John. In the general chapter of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Rogier/Rogerius serf des poures de Crist/servus pauperum Jhesu Christi promulgates statutes dealing with the duties of the conventual prior and local commanders, the provision of... more
initiator: Roger de Moulins, master of the Hospital, and the general chapter
recipient: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: 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.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];... more
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).
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year: 1182
initiator: Roger de Moulins, master of the Hospital
recipient: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
institution: Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text: *Nov. 17. Acre. Master Roger orders the transference of 50 besants each year from the rents of a house in front of the church of St Mark in Acre, belonging to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, to provide a priest to say Mass in the Order’s church for the soul of Pons Marrans.*Nov. 17. Acre. Master Roger orders the transference of 50 besants each year from the rents of a house in front of the church of St Mark in Acre, belonging to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, to provide a priest to say Mass in the Order’s church for the soul of Pons Marrans.
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