id: 163670 accession number: 2005.145.40.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.40.a updated: 2025-05-16 16:46:23.966000 Simeon Kneels in Front of Mary and Jesus after Recognizing Them (folio 40 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier, 1602–4. Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim (1569–1627). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 26.2 x 15.7 cm (10 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.); image: 21.4 x 12.6 cm (8 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2005.145.40.a title: Simeon Kneels in Front of Mary and Jesus after Recognizing Them (folio 40 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1602–4 creation date earliest: 1602 creation date latest: 1604 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim (1569–1627) technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 26.2 x 15.7 cm (10 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.); Image: 21.4 x 12.6 cm (8 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2019-12-02T05:00:00 Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 2, 2019-July 1, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5-April 27, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-01-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s date: before 1930s–2005 footnotes: citations: (Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2005 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2005– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sotheby's (Firm). Arts of the Islamic World: Including 20th Century Middle Eastern Painting. London: Sotheby's, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: lot no. 75, p. 77 url: O’Malley, John W., Gauvin A. Bailey, and Giovanni Sale. The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540-1773. 1st English ed. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 352, fig. 10.37 url: Carvalho, Pedro de Moura, and W. M. Thackston. Mirʼāt al-quds (Mirror of holiness): a life of Christ for Emperor Akbar: a commentary on Father Jerome Xavier's text and the miniatures of Cleveland Museum of Art, Acc. no. 2005.145. Leiden: Brill, 2012. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.145.40.a/2005.145.40.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.145.40.a/2005.145.40.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.145.40.a/2005.145.40.a_full.tif