The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 6, 2026

A fragmented manuscript page features twelve rows of black Persian calligraphy. Each row of script is individually encased in undulating gold clouds. A thin gold and blue border frames the central text, while a wide margin on the left is decorated with gold floral vine patterns. A small panel at the top contains faded script against a gold ground. The light brown paper has irregular, torn edges.

Text, Folio 2 (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 2005.145.2.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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