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Historical Archive: Swords, Long Knives, and Daggars 13th c.-present sword and scabbard: portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page with more swords St. Demetrios, stone (shale/schist?), late 12th-early 13th c., Byzantine? Novgorod AM buckle with fighting knights from Kígyóspuszta (Hungary), gold and niello, 13th c., HNM equestrian seal of William Fitzhamor, jet intaglio, English early 13th c., BM 1978,1-2,1 Thomas Becket reliquary, copper/enamel, c.1200-1210, SF. For oblique view see SF. reliquary of Thomas Becket, copper alloy/enamel, Limoges c.1200-25, Cluny Cl. 22596. For details see Cluny. reliquary châsse plaque: Crucifixon and St. Thomas Becket, copper gilt and enamel, Master G. Alpais and workshop (French), c.1220-1225, CMA 1951.449 font, copper alloy c.1226, Hildesheim Cathedral. This work has its own page with more swords. Chartres cathedral, north transept windows 1234-35. For more views see Chartres. daggar: St. Maurice, sandstone c.1240-60, Magdeburg, which has its own page death of John the Baptist, mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages. Holofernes' army devastating the vineyards outside Damascus, stained glass from the Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 1241/43-48, PMA 1930-24-2 Naumburg cathedral west choir, c.1245-50, which has its own pages with more swords in choir and windows Virgin and Child with SS Paul, Peter, John the Evangelist, and Andrew, c.1265-75, Madonna del Voto Master (Dietisalvi di Speme?), SPN 6. This work has its own page. altar baldachin fr. Årdal, painted pine 1275-1300, Bergen 131: Crucifixion w. Peter/Paul, Christ enthroned, Virgin and Child w. St. Margaret of Antioch Tristan embroidery, wool on linen, c.1300-25, WIEN Ha 1, WienMus, which has its own page with more weapons Nedstryn altar frontal, painted pine 1300-25, Bergen MA 1, which has its own page with more swords Passion of Christ, ivory, Paris, 1st half of 14th c., MAAB. This object has its own page. Giovanni Pisano pulpit 1302-10, which has its own page, in Pisa cathedral Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux, silver gilt/enamel, 1324-39, Louvre MR 342, which has its own page pulpit hanging, linen and silk embroidery on linen, Wienhausen 1325-75, WIEN Hb 3. For full work see WienMus. Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page with more swords. Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, painted c.1335, which has its own page with many weapons Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Good and Bad Government 1338-40, Siena, which has its own page with swords and spears plenary of Otto the Mild, 1339 reusing chessboard 1300-30, KGM W 32, which has its own page Arca di Sant' Agostino, 1362-aft. 1409, San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia. This work has its own page. Arezzo, San Francesco: St. Michael and the Rebel Angels fresco, Spinello Aretino (1350-1410) Orcagna altarpiece 1357, Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, which has its own page Duke Christopher (d. 1363), alabaster with glass, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page Baptistery, cathedral of Padua, 1376 frescoes: Giusto de' Menabuoi. This work has its own pages. daggars, right: memorial of Dominico Raynerius 1395, Pisa baptistery, which has its own page, in cathedral complex Crucifixion, painted ivory, c.1400-50 Rhineland or Flanders, Schn B144 Abraham and Isaac, oak choir stalls, 1420, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page with more sword reliefs Parri Spinelli, Madonna of Mercy w. lives SS. Lorentino, Pergentino, tempera/panel 1435-37, Arezzo MS, which has its own page Parri Spinelli, prob. Battle of the Milvian Bridge, c.1435-40, fresco fr. abbey of SS. Flora e Lucella, Arezzo MS Betrayal of Christ, alabaster with polychrome and gilding, England c.1450-1500, loan to UMMA from Met 1948,48.175.1. This work has its own page. Giovanni di Paolo 1460-65, Last Judgment, SPN inv. 172, which has its own page door with St. Paul, Pedro Garcia de Benabarre, c.1460-70, oil on wood, MFAB 97.6a. This and the companion door have their own page. Life of Mary polyptych from Hamburg cathedral, Absolon Stumme 1499, MNW Śr. 432. This work has its own page with more examples. Death of John the Baptist, stained glass from St. Pierre du Châtel, Rouen, Master of the Life of John the Baptist, early 16th c., PMA 1929-131-1 Wittenberg University seal matrix, Elector Friedrich III. of Saxony, silver, 1502, SMBMünz 18239333 St. George and the dragon, marble, Michel Colombe 1509-10; frame prob. Jerome Pacherot, Jean Chersalle, Bertrand de Meynal. Louvre MR 1645. This work has its own page. Triptych of St. Stanislaus the Bishop from church in Pławno, painted and gilt limewood, Krakow c.1510-20, MNW Śr. 18. This work has its own page. Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp fol.586r, Iran, mid 1520s-30s, Met 1970.301. This manuscript has its own page. daggar: Lucretia, stained glass, circle of Master of the "Kanis Triptych", Netherlandish c.1530, CMA 1951.335. For detail see CMA. Apocalypse medal, Hans Reinhart the Elder 1539, silver, Pushkin Bec 54, 13r daggar: Lucretia, Majolica platter (coppa amatoria) c.1540, Casteldurante workshop, Arezzo MS Canon Arnold Freitag (d.1546), sandstone, upper panel, HildMus G25 Giovanni Bernardi, Christ before Pilate, obverse, intaglio rock crystal in gold with enamel and gems, c.1547, WAM 41.240. For other views see Walters. Léonard Limosin (attrib.), enamel on copper from Feuillantines convent (Paris), repeating Chartres composition: Galiot de Genouillac as St Paul, mid 16th c. Limoges, Louvre MR XIII suppl 210 John the Baptist triptych, enamel/copper, Martin Didier Pape late 16th c., SF 1952.32a-c, which has its own page Charlemagne gives his sword and orb to a king of France under the auspices of a Benedictine monk of St-Denis, oil on canvas, 17th c., MAHSD 83.13.01 Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Andrea Camassei (1602/49), Lateran Baptistery narthex, Rome, which has its own interior page. clock in the form of The Oath of the Horatii (aft. Jacques- Louis David), bronze gilt and marble, clockwork: Le Roy, early 19th c., Musée Carnavalet Paris Hemmings & Co. c.1895-96: King Henry IV (d.1413), King Henry VIII (d.1547). Canterbury Chapter house, which has its own page. miracles of St. Thomas, Samuel Caldwell Jr. 1919-49: Canterbury cathedral, which has its own glass page.