“When I got Clothilde Missal, a manuscript illustrated by Clothilde Coulaux, I found it surprisingly heavy.” When she asked the museum’s book conservator why it was so weighty, she was told ...

This richly illustrated manuscript was written and created twenty two years into the reign of the great Mughal emperor and a descendant of Timur, Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, in 1577-78 AD.