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Collection Online as of September 5, 2026

A vertically oriented tan page features a rectangular block of Persian calligraphic script in black ink. A header contains two lines of text, while the body below is interspersed with red and gold phrases. Thin blue, red, and gold lines frame the central composition. Stains mark the top and bottom margins of the aged paper, and the right edge shows signs of wear where the page was once bound.

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 2005.145.117.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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