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Settlement between daughter of Mirza Aqa Khan and her daughter, 1899 or 1900
Settlement between the daughter of Mirza Aqa Khan (and sister of Shaykh al-Islam) and her daughter, in which a big and white room and its furniture are settled in exchange for three kilos of salt and a silver coin. This settlement is confirmed in by several religious leaders. Also, according to this agreement, 75 tumans were put aside for thirty years to be used for food donations for five years and four years of prayers and fasts in case of the death of Mirza Aqa Khan's daughter. The two women are not named in the document.
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Marriage contract of the daughter of Mirza Aqa Nasir and Muhammad, [1883?]
Marriage contract of the daughter of Mirza Aqa Nasir [her name is not mentioned] and Muhammad, the son of Mulla ʻAbbasʻali Haj Abu Talib, with a mahr of: pieces of land and gardens, one sixth of a house where the groom lives, two outfits to be bought, five mans of copper, kilims and felt to cover a room, sheep, and silver.
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Testimony of Katan Jan regarding Karbalayi Muhammad Ibrahim's debt
Testimony of Katan Jan, wife of Sultan Ja‘far Khan, about five rugs and six silver cookie plates that Karbalayi Muhammad Ibrahim Kurah-paz has borrowed but does not have the intention to return.
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Settlement between Bahadur al-Sultan and his aunts, Akram al-Muluk and Mahparvar, 1905
Settlement to resolve the dispute between Haj Khan Baba Khan Bahadur al-Sultan and his two maternal aunts, Zahra (known as Akram al-Muluk) and Mahparvar, the daughters of Parviz Chahardawli, regarding the one third of the inheritance of Asiyah, the maternal grandmother of Bahadur al-Sultan. After twelve days of reviewing the case, the writer has decided that all the claims of Bahadur al-Sultan were settled in exchange for 2700 tumans. The inheritance of Asiyah, according to a settlement document by Akhund Mulla Muhammad Taqi Shaykh al-Islam, includes: properties, villages, cash assets,...
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Questions and answers
Questions by Shaykh Hasan Rashti for Muhammad Husayn Na’ini, Sayyid Abu al-Hasan Isfahani, and Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi, along with their answers; the first question is regarding a person who has transferred his properties to his sons a few hours before his death, excluding his daughter from inheritance; the second question is about bestowing a pair of silver hamsa amulets
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Power of attorney to Haji Baba, 1901
Aqa Mashhadi Najaf, the son of Haji Muhammad Ganjah, grants his brother, Aqa Mashhadi Haji Baba, the merchant from Ganjah, the power of attorney to manage the transfer of his belongings to his three children, Sughra Khanum, Sariyah Khanum, and Muhammad Muhsin.
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Marriage contract of Zarrin Taj and Aqa Khan, 1898
Marriage contract of Zarrin Taj, daughter of Hasan Aqa Sultan, resident of Ziyabad village, and Aqa Khan, son of Baba Khan, resident of the same village. The mahr includes three tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, five thousand dinars for a Qur'an, twenty-five misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one hundred misqals of silver, ten tumans to buy a set of bedding, forty tumans to buy a set of rugs, an oil lamp, a bathing bowl, a tray, a ewer and basin set, and ten mans [unit of weight] of copperware worth ten tumans. Additionally, the groom's father transferred the ownership of some...
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Settlement between Ma‘sumah Khanum and Muhammad Taqi, 1901
Ma‘sumah Khanum, daughter of the late Mirza Ibrahim Khan Amirtuman, gives her share of inheritance to Sayyid Muhammad Taqi in exchange for some sugar cubes and some nabat [crystal candy]. Later, on November 6, 1901, Sayyid Muhammad Taqi returns all the settled properties to Ma‘sumah Khanum for the same settlement fee.
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Two settlements with Hajiyah Zivar Sultan, 1904
Settlement of Hajiyah Zivar Sultan, daughter of the late Haji Muhammad Hasan Tajir [the merchant] from Shiraz known as Salih, with Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin and the children of the late Haji Muhammad (Mirza ‘Abd al-Karim, Khanum Batul, and Khanum Malik) over a house known as Tarf-i Buzurg and half of a house known as Tarf-i Kuchak in Shiraz; and a settlement between Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin on behalf of himself and on behalf of the children of the late Karbalayi Muhammad Kazim (Bibi Sahib Sultan, Bibi Rubab Sultan, Shaykh Ghulam Riza, Bibi Sughra Sultan, and Bibi Qamar Khanum) with Hajiyah Zivar...
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Dowry registry
List of some items (probably someone's dowry) such as: carpet, beddings, carpet cover, mirror, rosewater sprinkler, crystal glasses, crystal salt shaker, brass brazier, silver box, crystal hookah, gold bracelets, gold earrings, scarf, a broadcloth robe, tirmah hat, and socks