A vertical cream page features fourteen lines of black Persian calligraphy. The text is housed in a central rectangular panel framed by thin blue and gold borders, topped by a small header with gold script. A brown stain marks the top right corner, while circular binding holes line the left edge. A single line of diagonal script appears in the bottom left margin.

An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s

(Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Text page from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

The magician, disguised as a Brahman, visits the king of Babylon, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fifth Night

Leaf Excised from a "Decretum" by Gratian: Initial C[anonici cuiusdam ecclesiae] with a Seated Cleric

Text page from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim

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