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Collection Online as of August 2, 2026

A vertically oriented tan manuscript page features eleven lines of Persian calligraphy written with black ink. A thin gold and colored border frames the central text block. The aged paper has irregular edges and a vertical column of small circular holes along the right side. In the bottom-left margin sits a small numeral. The elegant, curving script is set against the textured, unadorned background of the wide margins.

Text, Folio 6 (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 2005.145.6.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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