Ioannes II completed & signed the typikon of the Pantokrator

Summary:
Ioannes II completed the typikon of the Pantokrator complex, and signed it, probably just in time before leaving on his Cilician expedition. The Typikon was for the Pantokrator monastery, the church of the Eleousa, and a Heroon or funerary chapel between them. There were also elaborate arrangements for a hospital. He made detailed provisions for the staff of each area, precedence, the honouring of the tombs and the giving of food and alms at the gates. He provided for the diet of the monks, mealtime behaviour, care of sick monks, monks devoted to menial tasks and more honourable offices. He explained how the monastery was to be separate from the world, how it should be governed and how a new hegoumenos should be appointed and forced to follow the typikon. He regulated the relations of the Pantokrator with its dependent monasteries elsewhere. For the church of the Eleousa, he stipulated the numbers and remuneration of its clergy and other staff, and expenses under other headings like lighting. Specially detailed prescriptions were made for the commemorations of Komnenian family members in the Heroon dedicated to the Archangel Michael, and the operation of the hospital. [These are given in separate units below.] 
Dates:
1136 October 
eight children of Ioannes II and Eirene Piroshka (Anonymi 186)
Eirene-Piroska, wife of Ioannes II Komnenos (Eirene 62)
  • Founded the splendid Pantokrator monastery in Constantinople (:) ῝Η δὲ καὶ φροντιστήριον ἐπ᾿ ὀνόματι τοῦ παντοκτράτορος ἐν Βυζαντίῳ συνεστήσατο, ἐς κάλλος καὶ μέγεθος ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα τῶν ἐπισημοτάτων ὄν Kinnamos 10.6-8, cf. 31.12-13
Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos (Ioannes 2)
  • He explained in his typikon that he was gathering two bodies of select monks and clergy, one for the completed monastery, the other for a church he was building dedicated to the Theotokos; there would also be provision for the elderly and infirm (:) κατοικητήριον ἕτερον Pantokrator Typikon 24-44
  • He gave instructions in the typikon on procedure for the offices in the monastery, including censing, especially for the Komnenian tombs and the icon of the Pantokrator, and psalms, chants and prayers during the censing, some in honour of emperors past and present (:) Pantokrator Typikon 45-115
  • He gave instructions in the typikon on the order of precedence of the monks of the Pantokrator, giving precedence to priests over deacons, except for the oikonomos, even if he were not a priest; there were also instructions concerning the general behaviour of the monks during the offices (:) Pantokrator Typikon 116-139
  • He gave instructions in the typikon on lighting the church on ordinary days, Sundays and the lesser feasts and on the feasts of the Transfiguration, Easter, the Nativity, Epiphany, the Exaltation of the Cross, the Annunciation, Pentecost, Palm Sunday, the Presentation in the Temple, the Birth of the Theotokos and the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple (:) τῇ μεταμορφώσει ... Πάσχα ... τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ Γέννησιν ... τὴν ἑορτὴν τῶν Φώτων ... τὴν Ὕψωσιν ... Pantokrator Typikon 140-190
  • He gave instructions for all the above feasts over distribution of bread and money at the gates, and food offered; he added details over the feasts of St Basileios, St Gregorios of Nazianzos and St Ioannes Chrysostomos, the Holy Apostles, St Philippos, Holy Thursday and the Dormition (celebrated splendidly at the Eleousa church) (:) Pantokrator Typikon 164-204
  • He gave instructions in the typikon on procedure and behaviour at mealtimes in the monastery, with special attention to supper and weekly diet and fasts; all meals should end with the name of the Theotokos (:) Pantokrator Typikon 291-457
  • He gave instructions in the typikon for sick monks to be visited and tended in their cells, with special attention from the hegoumenos and a doctor if necessary; there was to be a six-bed sanatorium, with a resident doctor (when necessary), and washing facilities (available to the entire monastery) (:) Ἐχέτω τὸ τρικλινάριον κλίνας ἐστρωμένας ἕξ Pantokrator Typikon 379-396
  • He gave very detailed prescriptions for the monks' diet during the Lenten fast, especially for abstinence on Good Friday and Holy Saturday; they should also abstain from bathing (:) Pantokrator Typikon 463-516
  • He gave strict rules on the examination of postulants, especially from other monasteries, forbidding the demanding of gifts and giving discretion to the hegoumenos over the wealthy; women should not be admitted, and women visitors (to bury or commemorate relatives) should come in via the Eleousa (:) Pantokrator Typikon 517-535
  • On the numbers and duties of the monks: there should be at least 80 in all, with at least 50 dedicated to work in the church; among the less than 30 "menial" monks, he prescribed that there should be bakers, gardeners, cooks, and assistants to the ekklesiarches and oikonomos, together with 6 for the most lowly tasks (:) ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς τῶν δουλευτῶν μοίρας Pantokrator Typikon 535-555
  • From the 50 monks for the church were found the ekklesiarches, the skeuophylakes, the chartophylakes, the nosokomos, the xenodochos, the docheiarioi, the horeiarioi, the 2 domestikoi (choir-leaders), at least 6 priests and 6 deacons, 2 kanonarchai, 2 assistants to the domestikoi and the horologos (:) Pantokrator Typikon 542-550
  • He stipulated in the typikon that the monks should work in the monastery, and never sleep outside it: financial administration should be done by laymen, and monks should not agree to sing psalms or make confession elsewhere; he also regulated provision of clothing (:) Pantokrator Typikon 559-612
  • He explained in the typikon how the hegoumenos had power to change the rule, how a new hegoumenos should be appointed and appeals made to the emperor over disputed elections, and how the new hegoumenos should be installed and not called to account if he followed the typikon (:) Pantokrator Typikon 614-684
  • He gave instructions in the typikon that any surplus from the dependent monasteries of Nossiai, Monokastanon, Anthemiou, Medikarion, Galakrenai and Satyros should be handed over to the Pantokrator, but also that the others should be supported by the Pantokrator if necessary (:) Pantokrator Typikon 685-697
  • He instructed in some detail that each dependent monastery should maintain its way of life, that its number of monks be recorded and reconciled gradually with its typikon, receiving what they had always received; none should have a hegoumenos, but be run by oikonomoi, supervised by the hegoumenos of the Pantokrator (:) Pantokrator Typikon 698-727
  • Near the Pantokrator he built a church for the Theotokos Eleousa, and between the two a chapel (heroon) of the archangel Michael, as a funeral chapel; he made detailed stipulations for the lighting of these two spaces, especially during prayers near the imperial tombs on Fridays (:) Pantokrator Typikon 728-778
  • He stipulated in the typikon 50 clergy for the church of the Eleousa: 8 priests and 10 deacons, two of whom in each case should lead teams for alternate weeks, 2 domestikoi, 2 laosynaktai, 16 chanters, 4 kanonarchai and 8 orphan lamplighters, with 4 listed awaiting a vacancy (:) Pantokrator Typikon 780-785
  • His typikon specified four respectable female graptai, two for each week but all four to be present at the Friday vigil, to join the orphans in helping in the ceremony and providing water for the participants; in general, the clergy should work in two teams in alternate weeks paid separately (:) Pantokrator Typikon 785-796
  • He stipulated graded remuneration for each level of clergy and assistants, expressed in hyperpyra nomismata and modioi of grain; extra cash should be given at the commemorations of Alexios 1, Ioannes 2, Eirene 62, Eirene 61, Anna 61 and (later) Alexios 103, if buried in Ioannes' tomb (:) Pantokrator Typikon 808-838
  • His provisions for the Eleousa church were completed with details of feasts of the Theotokos specially celebrated there: payment of the clergy (with fines for absence), lighting, grades of flour for communion bread, wine and incense (:) Pantokrator Typikon 840-859
  • His instructions for the Church of St Michael involved thrice-weekly celebrations of the liturgy and yearly commemorations for himself, Eirene 62 and (later) Alexios 103; he prescribed the lighting, good bread and wine, and visits from the Hodegetria icon for the commemorations, when many hyperpyra should be given to its attendants and the congregation (:) Pantokrator Typikon 860-900
  • He gave instructions in the typikon for a 50-bed hospital: 10 for cases of wounds and fractures, 8 for acute cases involving eyes, stomachs etc., 12 for sick women and 20 for ordinary illnesses; quotas not filled should be given to patients with other problems; bedclothes were to be provided (:) Pantokrator Typikon 904-917
  • The typikon stipulated that the 50 beds be divided into 5 wards, each with an extra bed for emergencies; there should be 6 beds with holes for patients unable to move, and spare clothes for the very poor or sick, to leave their own in a good state; bedclothes should be inspected yearly and changed or mended, with any surplus given to the poor (:) Pantokrator Typikon 916-934
  • Each ward at the Pantokrator was to have 2 doctors, 3 certified assistants, 2 auxiliary assistants, 2 servants and one exkoubitor on night duty; the women's ward should have two doctors accompanied by one female doctor, with 4 certified and 2 auxiliary female assistants and two female servants (:) Pantokrator Typikon 937-943
  • The hospital's two senior ward doctors were called protomenitai; as well as the ward doctors there were two others (primikerioi), a teacher of medicine, 2 optiones, and for outpatients 4 doctors (2 physicians, and 2 surgeons also used in the women's ward), 4 certified and 4 auxiliary assistants (the latter also for the hospital) (:) Pantokrator Typikon 944-954
  • All the hospital's doctors (primikerioi included) served in two shifts, working alternate months, visiting the hospital daily, twice daily in the summer; the primikerioi made daily ward rounds, supervising patient care with the rest; a nosokomos and meizoteros ensured supplies, regardless of cost (:) Pantokrator Typikon 955-984
  • There was a chief pharmacist, 3 certified and 2 auxiliary druggists, 1 doorkeeper, 5 washerwomen, 1 water-heater, 2 cooks, 1 groom (for mill horses and doctors' mounts), 1 gatekeeper, 1 caterer, 2 priests for churches (1 for confessions), 2 readers, 2 bakers, 4 undertakers, 1 priest for funerals, 1 cleaner of drains and 1 miller (:) Pantokrator Typikon 997-1006
  • All hospital staff and mobile patients should join in commemorations of Alexios 1, Eirene 102, Ioannes 2 (and later Alexios 103), for which provision was made in bread, wine and torches; small sums were to be distributed to all after these commemorations; the dead of the hospital should also be remembered (:) Pantokrator Typikon 1007-1034
  • Arrangements should be made for provisions to be equally distributed to the lower staff and the patients of the hospital: cash for wine, other refreshments and soap, a bakery for bread, bathing facilities and supplies and kitchen equipment (:) Pantokrator Typikon 1024-1062
  • He prescribed two extra doctors for the monastery, from the best certified assistants at the hospital, promoted first to the women's ward, then the others; their places at the hospital should be filled, making a professional career path (:) Pantokrator Typikon 1063-1073
  • The nosokomos received cash to provide generously for the monastery as well as the hospital: olive oil, honey, vinegar, firewood, wax, incense, candles, vine oil, cups and plates, cold cauterizers, lamps, wheat flour, sugar, grapes, pomegranates, grapejuice, barley, bread (:) Pantokrator Typikon 1082-1116