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Fig. 717. Ceremonial sword

Late XVth or early XVIth century. From the Austrian Archducal Insignia

Imperial Treasury, Vienna

Pomerania by Pope Alexander VI (Borgia) on Christmas day, 1497. As proved by the papal accounts in the Vatican it was originally made entirely by the goldsmith Angelino di Domenico de Sutri. But of his work only the scabbard