1592999394000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-19074 1747160050043 1714399912000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-19074 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/19074 69c791fb-fcea-3b2d-8828-ef9dd12fcb69 9 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-108941 adlib-term-108941 bda2218a-91c2-3b79-99c1-49e47cc3aff1 J.S. Henderson reference term-27716 adlib-term-27716 246eefd8-f18b-3c47-8338-d68140b3497e gilt Width cm 15 Hilt traces reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding reference term-32234 adlib-term-32234 96ff7097-33c1-398e-891e-22b7705b69fe wood (plant material) Grip reference term-5127 adlib-term-5127 8268a9a5-a090-3d77-aca9-5ee696f565e2 fluting reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Sword sword, cast, with a fluted grip and traces of a gilded hilt reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) reference term-40335 adlib-term-40335 80b8ec5a-ae92-3ae0-8967-f2a28e1658d4 brass (alloy) Cap reference term-40335 adlib-term-40335 80b8ec5a-ae92-3ae0-8967-f2a28e1658d4 brass (alloy) Tang Button Length cm 66.5 Width cm 3.7 Blade Width cm 8.7 Quillons Forte copperplate script reference term-26892 adlib-term-26892 9d0eddda-338f-30fd-ab94-0c8050cfa443 engraving (incising) Applied Arts Hilt mounts of lines (once gilded); grip of brown polished wood, spirally fluted in alternating wide and narrow grooves, finished with a cap and tang button of brass. There is a small pelta-shaped guard in front, cast in one piece like a small ring-guard enclosing a plate, below the short, thick, scroll-ended quillons. Blade broad, curved, back-edged, with hollowed faces. The back-edge is sharpened for some 15 cm (6") up from the point. At the forte, it is engraved on each side in a kind of copperplate script with the opening verses of the Gospel according to St. John, in German: 'Am angang was das wort, wud das wort was bei Gott, und Gott was das Wort...…'. HEN.M.283-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.283-1933 19074 priref 19074 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/19074 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/19074 the opening verses of St. John's Gospel on blade inscribed in a kind of copperplate script Am angang was das wort, wud das wort was bei Gott, und Gott was das Wort 283H tag reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum J.S. Henderson Bequest reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed Bequeathed by Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex, 1933 1720 1720 CE 1720 circa 1720 1740 1 1740 CE 1740 1740 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown This very typical hunting hanger has an inscription of the first verses of St John’s Gospel, beginning on one side: Am anfang war das wort… (In the beginning was the word), and continuing on the other side: Es war in der welt… (he was in the world). reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference term-107815 adlib-term-107815 f41b2595-df3f-3974-ab1f-6a950ef5d12d literal Germany Germany country Germany Length cm 81.3 reference media-13869 adlib-media-13869 ca83d18a-9e0e-3be9-9e0c-538d4453796c jpeg aa/aa25/HEN_M_283_1933_281_29.jpg 1 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