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Collection Online as of August 1, 2026

One side of a vertically oriented, buff-colored manuscript page features fifteen lines of flowing black calligraphy in a central column. Framed by thin gold and blue borders, the script sits below a gold-toned heading. The aged paper exhibits dark staining along its top and left edges. In the lower left margin, two short lines of text are inscribed diagonally, maintaining a balanced composition within the decorative gold frame.

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 2005.145.77.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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