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 chape is an oblong panel with the arms of Pope Julius II, surmounted by the crossed keys and tiara. Between this and the ferrule mount the scabbard is overlaid on both sides with silver-gilt work, wrought with grotesques, acorns, oak leaves, and foliage, and divided into three lengths by two circular medallions. The centres of these were at one time, filled with blue enamelled plates, on which have been scratched the name of Pope Julius II; but one of them has been renewed in silver-gilt by a Scottish goldsmith, and the other is so much chipped that all traces of the lettering have been obliterated. The ornamental metal work is in parts now much broken away, and only the central divisions of each side are complete. The dolphins and leafage that form the quillons appear to have been added to the hilt, in place of the original, about 1516, and are the labour of an Edinburgh silversmith, one Matthew Auchinlek. The additional embossed silverwork that appears on the scabbard was made in 1536 by another Edinburgh silversmith, Adam Leis.

By tradition the gift to King Henry VIII by Pope Leo X.

It is, however, of later date. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford