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Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Kuchak Jan Khanum and Murad, 1867 and 1879
Marriage and divorce contracts of Kuchak Jan Khanum, daughter of Ustad Qasim, and Murad, son of Kazim. The mahr was one tuman and five thousand dinars to buy one misqal [unit of weight] of gold, copperware, new clothes, bedding, kilim and felt, and some properties. On December 11, 1879, Kuchak Jan Khanum settled all of her mahr with her husband for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of wheat in order to get a divorce. It was agreed that if the husband wanted to return, he had to add an extra ten tumans to the mahr.
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Marriage contract and divorce settlement, 1884 and 1888
One side is the marriage contract of Baygum Jan, daughter of Sayyid Husayn son of Sayyid Nasr Allah, and Muhammad Isma‘il, son of the late Muhammad Riza Da’i. The mahr is sixty tumans, of which the groom paid thirty tumans in women's clothing, rugs, gold, and copper worth five tumans. The other thirty tumans remain the groom's debt. The other side is the divorce settlement of Baygum Jan, daughter of Sayyid Husayn from Gazirgah, and Ismaʻil, son of the late Riza Mushki-baf from Gazirgah. Baygum Jan settled her mahr, alimony, and clothing for twenty-five dirams [dirhams] and two copper coins...
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Marriage contract of Agha Baygum and Karbalayi Rajab ‘Ali, 1878
Marriage contract of Agha Baygum, daughter of the late Abu al-Qasim, and Karbalayi Rajab ‘Ali, son of Karbalayi Muhammad Isma‘il. The mahr is four hundred riyals.
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Marriage contract of Agha Baygum and Muhammad Baqir, 1875
Marriage contract of Agha Baygum, daughter of [illegible], and Muhammad Baqir, son of Haj Muhammad Husayn Mugharah known as Nilfurush. The mahr is twenty tumans.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum and Sayyid Ahmad, 1876
Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Sayyid Sadiq, and Sayyid Ahmad, son of Sayyid Muhammad Taqi. The mahr is fourteen tumans.
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Marriage contract of Jahan Sultan and Mirza Masha’ Allah, 1878
Marriage contract of Jahan Sultan, daughter of Rajab ‘Ali Chitsaz, and Mirza Masha’ Allah, son of Karbalayi Haydar ‘Ali with a mahr of fourteen tumans; the bride must obey the groom and the mahr remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Baygum and Haj ‘Abd Allah, 1880
Marriage contract of Kawkab Baygum, daughter of Haj Sayyid Ahmad, and Haj ‘Abd Allah, son of Haj ‘Ali, with a mahr of eighty tumans, ten tumans of which was given to the bride at the time of the marriage. The rest remains groom's debt. The marriage contract also includes the following conditions: if, in the first fifty years of the marriage, the groom travels for two full years without paying alimony to the bride, the bride can divorce herself and release the groom from paying half of the mahr. Additionally, the groom is not permited to take the bride out of the region without her consent.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum Saffar Harandi and Ustad ‘Abbas Saffar Harandi, 1891
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum, daughter of Ustad Muhammad Husayn Saffar Harandi, and Ustad ‘Abbas, son of Ustad Isma‘il Saffar Harandi. The mahr includes three tumans and three thousand dinars. The groom settled with the bride, exchanging three thousand dinars of the mahr and one hundred units of the preceding measure of wheat for twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, twenty mans [unit of weight] of copperware, two sets of silk women's clothes, one set of qalamkar women's clothes, one set of qalamkar bedding and one set of chintz bedding from Burujird, a rug, leaning...
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Marriage contract of Khanum Sultan and Muhammad Karim, 1885
Marriage contract of Khanum Sultan, daughter of Haydar ‘Ali (son of Muhammad ‘Ali), and Muhammad Karim, son of Muhammad Isma‘il [illegible]. The mahr includes: twelve tumans and three thousand three hundred fifty dinars, part of a property in [illegible] region of the Zaj Abad neighborhood, thirty tumans to buy property, fifteen tumans for women's clothes, ten tumans for a set of rugs, four tumans for a set of bedding, five tumans for a pair of earrings, three tumans as a bridal gift, and two mans [unit of weight] of copperware. The groom and his father settled on all of the items listed...
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