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Source Description
This weapon has an especially handsome configuration of hilt, pommel, quillons, and guard. The blade is also very finely wrought and bears the mark (a unicorn head) of the German swordsmith, Clemens Horn, of Solingen, a town near Düsseldorf. The Latin inscription on the blade reads in translation: "Neither without cause, nor fearfully/Between arms and silent law/ Prize truth and the fight for one's country."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
97042
label
Rapier
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obj
dtoType
object
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1
Source metadata
id
97042
contentType
object
title
Rapier
description
This weapon has an especially handsome configuration of hilt, pommel, quillons, and guard. The blade is also very finely wrought and bears the mark (a unicorn head) of the German swordsmith, Clemens Horn, of Solingen, a town near Düsseldorf. The Latin inscription on the blade reads in translation: "Neither without cause, nor fearfully/Between arms and silent law/ Prize truth and the fight for one's country."
date
c. 1620–30
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60779466
creators
10388
genreSpecific
Arms and Armor
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.); Blade: 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.); Quillions: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
cul
Germany, Solingen, 17th century
accession
1916.697
Source extras
tec
steel, blued and gilded
tombstone
Rapier, c. 1620–30. Clemens Horn (German, 1586–1617). Steel, blued and gilded; overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.); blade: 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.); quillions: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.697
collection
MED - Arms & Armor
inscriptions
inscription
NEC TEMPARE NEC TIMIDE / INTER ARMA SILENT LEGE / VERITATEM DILIGE ET PUGNA PRO PATRIA
inscription_translation
Neither without cause, nor fearfully/Between arms and silent law/ Prize truth and the fight for one's country.
inscription
Unicorn Head
inscription_remark
Mark of the bladesmith Clemens Horn
didYouKnow
The "Pappenheimer" hilt seen here is named after Count Pappenheimer (1594-1632) who popularized the style which offered more protection to the hand with its large pierced plates.
citations
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.
page_number
Reproduction: p. 39
citation
<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
page_number
cat. no. 440
citation
Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 111, E57; Reproduced: Plate XXIX, E57
citation
Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
page_number
pp. 116, 168; cat. no. 129
citation
Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page_number
cat. no. 176, p. 191
creditline
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
updatedAt
2026-05-29 05:13:39.492000
sourceId
97042
dept
Medieval Art
coll
MED - Arms & Armor
med
steel, blued and gilded
creatorTags
male
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image_url
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1
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0
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photo
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