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Collection Online as of February 7, 2023

Moses praying to end the serpents’ attack on the Israelites, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

1602–04

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Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim

(1569–1627)

Opaque watercolor, ink, color and gold on paper

Page: 26.3 x 15.6 cm (10 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.); Painting only: 18.9 x 10.5 cm (7 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.63.b

Location

not on view

Provenance
Before 1930s-2005
An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s through 2005
2005
(Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, UK, 2005, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
2005-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2005-present
Exhibition history

Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 2, 2019-July 1, 2020).

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