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Collection Online as of November 4, 2026

A vertically oriented, aged tan page features lines of black Persian script within a rectangular frame. Thin blue and red borders enclose the text, divided by smaller red and gold headings. Significant wear shows at the frayed, torn right edge, marked by small holes. Faint text shows through from the reverse, and a marginal note sits at the lower left. The dark ink contrasts sharply with the paper's weathered tone.

Text, folio 13 (recto), 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
Average: 26.1 x 15.6 cm (10 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.13.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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