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Collection Online as of August 2, 2026

A vertically oriented tan manuscript page features twelve horizontal lines of black Persian script. The text is framed by a thin blue, red, and gold border, with a faint heading at the top center. Brown stains and binding holes mark the left edge of the aged paper. Brief notations appear in the lower left and upper right margins, while the surrounding tan paper remains plain and unadorned.

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 2005.145.45.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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