Tohfeh-ye Soltaniyeh: Nameha, Maktubat va Monsha’at

• Persian Title: تحفۀ سلطانیه: نامه‌ها، مکتوبات و منشآت
• Transliterated Title: Tuḥfat al-Sulṭāniyyah
• English Title: The Royal Gift: Letters, Correspondence, and Official Compositions
• Author: Ḥasan ibn Gul Muḥammad ibn Qulī Muḥammad (10th–11th centuries A.H.)
• Editor: Maḥbūbah Muslimī-zādah
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-600-203-193-8
• Publication Year: 2020
• Pages: 154
• Format: PDF
• Category: Treatises
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 338

【Summary】

Tuḥfat al-Sulṭāniyyah is a representative collection of Persian epistolary writings composed by Ḥasan ibn Gul Muḥammad between approximately 950–960 A.H. The work belongs to the cultural milieu of the Safavid period, contemporaneous with the reign of Shāh Ṭahmāsb Ṣafavī, and overlaps chronologically with the Mughal world under Akbar or Shāh Jahān.

The manuscript is organized into thematic sections, each containing model letters intended for use by scribes when addressing different social groups and officials, both formal and informal, and for a variety of purposes. Taken as a whole, the collection encompasses multiple genres of royal (sulṭānī) and fraternal (ikhwānī) correspondence, making it a valuable source for the study of Persian prose style, administrative culture, and epistolary conventions of the late medieval and early modern Iranian world.