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Collection Online as of August 1, 2026

One side of a vertical tan page features thirteen rows of black cursive script inside a rectangular frame. Gold ink headings occupy a divided rectangle at the top. Fine gold and black lines border the central text block, while a faint brown figure appears through the writing. A strip of darker, damaged paper with several holes runs along the left edge. Small cursive inscriptions sit in the bottom left corner.

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
Average: 26.1 x 15.6 cm (10 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.40.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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