AREA EAST OF THE CONVENTUAL BUILDINGS
In Cluny, as on the Plan of St. Gall, this tract contains the
monk's cemetery as well as the monks' infirmary. The
infirmary itself consists of four rooms, each 27 feet wide
and 23 feet long plus two additional rooms a little smaller
than the others. In one of these the sick brothers came to
wash their feet on Saturdays; in the other, attending
servants cleaned the pans and all the other utensils of the
sick brothers. The Farfa text does not refer to an infirmary
chapel; however, a chapel 45 feet long, 20 feet wide, and
23 feet high (oratorium sanctae Mariae) which could have
served this function is mentioned immediately before the
infirmary in the text. There is no further evidence to either
confirm or disprove this assumption.
In departure from the layout shown in the eastern tract
of the Plan of St. Gall, the novitiate has been separated
from the infirmary and moved to a site south of the east
range. As on the Plan, however, the novitiate may still
have been arranged peripherally around a cloister yard, as
Conant suggests in his latest plan. The Farfa text describes
it as composed of four parts: "In the first they meditate;
in the second they eat; in the third they sleep; in the fourth
there is a latrine on the side" (prima ut meditent, in secunda
reficiant, in tertia dormiant, in quarta latrina ex latere).
