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Collection Online as of September 4, 2026

A vertical, light tan manuscript page features fourteen lines of flowing black Persian calligraphy. The script is arranged into three sections of two, four, and eight lines, all enclosed within a thin rectangular border of gold and blue. The paper shows age with torn, uneven edges on the right side. A small number is visible in the wide margin at the upper left.

Text, folio 14 (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 2005.145.14.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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