The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 6, 2026

A vertically oriented tan manuscript page features a central vertical rectangle of black Persian calligraphy. Horizontal script lines are framed by a thin gold and red border. A heading reading "داستان مسیح" rests within a top panel, while smaller rectangular boxes segment the text below. To the left, a worn margin reveals stitch holes and a small annotation. Significant discoloration and water stains mark the page's upper and left edges.

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 2005.145.128.b
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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