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Collection Online as of August 3, 2026

A vertically oriented, aged cream page features thirteen lines of black calligraphy within a gold, blue, and red rectangular border. The slanted script flows elegantly below a small header section containing two lines of text. The wide, weathered margins show scattered brown spots and frayed, uneven edges. The refined ink brushwork is framed by delicate multicolored lines against the textured, time-worn paper.

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 2005.145.68.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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