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Collection Online as of August 2, 2026

A vertically oriented folio of aged brown paper features twelve lines of fluid Persian script in black ink. The text is enclosed within a thin rectangular border of gold and red lines, with horizontal rules dividing the script into distinct sections. To the left, a ragged edge shows small holes from a previous binding. The mottled paper surface displays warm brown tones and irregular staining throughout.

Text, Folio 6 (verso), 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.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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