The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 3, 2026

Vertically oriented on aged tan paper, this manuscript page features rows of fluid black script. A thin blue and gold frame encloses the text, segmented by narrow horizontal gold bars. Small, dark binding holes punctuate the left edge, while faint brown stains mottle the top. In the lower left margin, a few lines of script tilt diagonally. The composition balances rhythmic calligraphy with the weathered, textured surface of the paper.

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 2005.145.171.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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