The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 11, 2026

An aged tan manuscript page features thirteen lines of Nasta'liq script in black ink. A central text block, topped with a small heading box, is framed by thin gold, red, and blue borders. Fluid calligraphic strokes fill the vertical layout. Small stains and binding punctures mar the right edge of the paper, and faint traces of text are visible from the reverse side.

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
John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.95.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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