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Collection Online as of August 3, 2026

One side of a vertically oriented cream-colored page features thirteen rows of fluid Persian script in black and red ink. The text is contained within a rectangular border of thin blue and gold lines, with a header box at the top. The aged paper exhibits frayed edges on the left and binding holes along the right. The elegant calligraphy displays varying stroke widths and graceful curves, characteristic of classical manuscripts.

Text page from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

1602

Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim

(1569–1627)
Ink and gold on paper
John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.101.a
Location: Not on view
  • before 1930s–2005
    An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s
    2005
    (Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2005–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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