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accession number:	2013.302.b
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Calligraphy of a Pious Invocation in Rhyme (verso), 1500s or 1600s. India, Mughal, 16th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 34 x 20.7 cm (13 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.302.b

title:				Calligraphy of a Pious Invocation in Rhyme (verso)
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creation date:			1500s or 1600s
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1695
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creditline:			Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture:	India, Mughal, 16th century
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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measurements: Page: 34 x 20.7 cm (13 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Arabic verses in nasta‘liq script:
O Immutable in Your attributes!/ 
O Gatherer of that which is dispersed!/
You who make plants bloom;/
You who quicken the dead from decayed bones;/
You who send down succor/
From those bowing and kneeling/
To the grieving and sick/
To the hungry and famished/
From the routing and flooding,/
O Creator of the constellations,/
In the seamless heavens/
From the onset of night/
To the brightening of the light of dawn.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Collection, New York, NY)
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	The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY
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	Robert Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY
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	(Sotheby’s, London, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 20 June 1983, lot 65, sold to Ralph and Catherine Benkaim)
	date: June 20, 1983
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	Ralph [1914–2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, by descent to his wife, Catherine Benkaim
	date: 1983–2001
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2001–2013
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013–
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CITATIONS

	Sotheby's London. <em>Fine Oriental Miniatures and Manuscripts</em>. 20 June 1983.
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	Heeramaneck, Alice N.<em> Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck</em>. [Place of publication not identified]: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984.
	page number: 	cat. no. 168
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	Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. <em>Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.
	page number: 	cat. 27, p. 195
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