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Marriage contract of Karbalaʼi ʻAli and Bibi Hajir, 7 October 1877
Marriage contract between Karbalaʼi ʻAli, son of Aqa Rajab ʻAli, and Bibi Hajir, daughter of Haj Mirza Baqir. The mahr is 200 tumans, 25 Nasir al-Din shahi coins, and 10 misqals of gold.
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Essays in medicine
A collection of essays in medicine. Titles include: reasons of death attributed to Hippocrates, prayers for cholera and plague, translation of Tibb al-Riza, essay on reproduction, a selection of Tuhfat al-Muʼminin, essay on maintaining health, facilitating the cure, essay on cholera, difference between typhoid and cholera.
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Diary of Basir al-Mamalik, 1890-1995
Diary of Mirza Muhammad Tahir Mustawfi, known as Basir al-Mamalik. The diary offers interesting information and covers some material about inner court interactions some of which relate to Anis al-Dawlah. There are three volumes, covering years 1890-1895, 1895-1901, 1902- 1908. This volume covers 1890 to 1895.
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Essay on inheritance
Two essays by Muhammad Taqi ibn Husayn‘ali Hiravi: first, "Rules of Inheritance and Their Tables," dated 1850 and 1852, and second, "On the Meaning of 'Al'," dated 1833.
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Taʼdib al-nisaʼ [Disciplining women]
Ta’dib al-nisa’ [Disciplining Women], also known as Ta’dib al-nisvan, is a male-centered, often misogynous text written in the tradition of satirical books of advice to men about how to treat their wives and train their daughters. According to Ruhangiz Karachi, the author of this text is most probably Khanlar Mirza Ihtisham al-Dawlah (d. 1861, a son of Fath 'Ali Shah). See "Who is the original author of Ta’dib al-nisvan?", Tarikh-i adabiyat, 65, 3 (summer 2010): 199-208.
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Collection of essays by Muhammad Sadiq Vaqayiʻ Nigar
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Collection of essays and legal documents
A collection of a number of essays with different writers and scribes. Some parts are devoted to the explanation of different types of marriage and divorce. In between the lines, there are a number of contracts and settlements, including lease, and sale settlements, but most of them are marriage contracts and divorce settlements. Dates of these contracts are mostly in 1840s. The first date is 13 January 1845 and the last date is 31 May 1893.
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Vaqayiʻ al-ayyam
This is a travelogue of Shaykh al-Islam Mansur Qazvini in which he gives accounts of the lives of people. In the beginning it is indicated that the manuscript is in his own hand writing, but at the end it is mentioned that the scribe of this volume, which was finished in 1893, was Mirza ʻAli Akbar, the son of Karbalayi Ghulamʻali.
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Anthology of food, [ca. 1873 or 1874]
A satirical anthology of poetry that uses Iranian foods to make fun of government elites, both men and women, including: Nasir al-Din Shah, Muzaffar al-Din Shah (Vali ʻAhd), Aqa Vajih, Fakhr al-Muluk, Ziyaʼ al-Saltanah, ʻIsmat al-Dawlah, Amin al-Saltanah, Turan Aqa, Tuman Aqa, Anis al-Dawlah, Shukuh al-Saltanah, Taj al-Dawlah, Shams al-Dawlah, Akhtar al-Saltanah, Badr al-Saltanah, Zaynab al-Saltanah, ʻIffat al-Saltanah, ʻAʼishah Khanum, Hajiyah Khanum, Amin Aqdas, Imam Jumʻah, Atabak Aʻzam, Iʻtimad al-Saltanah, Shaykh al-Islam, Nazim al-Bikaʼ. The writer, Mayil Afshar, received the titles...
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Hajj travelogue, February or March 1882
According to Dr. Rasul Ja‘farian, publisher of the travelogue, the author is Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah (d. 3 August 1888), daughter of Farhad Mirza Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah and Jahan Ara Khanum. Jahan Ara is the daughter of Muhammad ‘Ali Mirza Dawlatshahi, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah. Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah married three times: first to Mirza Muhammad Qavam al-Dawlah Ashtiyani (d. 1873); then to Mirza Musa (d. 1881), son of Mirza Hadi Ashtiyani Vazir Lashgar; then to Mirza ʻAbd Allah Vahab Khan Asif al-Dawlah (d. 1887). Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah...
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