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Collection Online as of August 2, 2026

A vertical off-white manuscript page features thirteen lines of black Nasta'liq script, a style of Persian calligraphy, written with ink. The elegant text features fluid strokes and sits within a rectangular frame of thin blue and gold lines. A smaller heading is centered at the top. Broad, warm-toned stains mark the upper portion and right margin. Binding holes line the uneven right edge. The composition is centered on the page.

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 2005.145.153.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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