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Book on Finding a Spouse
The Book on Finding a Spouse is a short poem describing courtship and marriage customs during the Qajar period. Mirza Baqir Qazvini (1838-1886) wrote this book, under the pen name Naji.
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Four copies of marriage contract, 1714 to 1827
First image: copy of the marriage contract of Farangis Khanum, daughter of Lutf‘ali Khan, and Murtaza Quli Mirza, son of Haydar Quli Mirza (son of Fath‘ali Shah Qajar), with mahr of five hundred tumans, May 28, 1827; second image: copy of the marriage contract of Shams Banu, daughter of Fath‘ali Shah Qajar, and Mirza Musa Khan, son of Mirza Buzurg; third image: copy of a marriage contract, November 20, 1805; fourth image: copy of the marriage contract of Aminah Sultan Baygum, daughter of Mirza Ghiyas al-Din Mansur al-Husayni, and Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali al-Musavi...
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Kulliyat of Tajmah Khanum
Tajmah Khanum wrote this book, composed of three parts. The first part consists of nearly 120 verses. The first poem is a sonnet written by the poet when she was 16 and the last one was written to praise Riza Shah. The second part is more than 20 letters and notes, which are mostly administrative and legal. Other letters were addressed to women who where contemporaries of Tajmah Khanum. The third part of this book is a selection of poems by Persian poets from Rudaki to the Qajar period.