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Collection Online as of August 3, 2026

A vertically oriented tan page features two blocks of black calligraphy in a flowing, slanted script. A border of thin red and blue lines with a gold band frames the text. The paper has a frayed, torn left edge with small holes along the margin. A large triangular patch covers the bottom right corner. Flowing black ink strokes vary in weight against the weathered surface of the manuscript.

Text, folio 14 (verso), 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.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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