This album page features verses of Persian love poetry written in a script known as nasta‘liq. First developed in Iran in the fourteenth century, nasta‘liq is a modification of the cursive naskh script, in which letterforms are smoothed and elongated and successive words are stacked atop one another, appearing suspended. By the fifteenth century, nasta‘liq became the principal calligraphic script used in regions where Persian was the primary literary language, including Iran, Central Asia, and Anatolia.