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Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum and Husayn Quli, 1836
Marriage contract of Mah Sharaf Baygum, daughter of ‘Ata’ Allah Khan, and Husayn Quli Khan, son of Muhammad Quli Khan Khamsah. The mahr is two hundred misqals [unit of weight] of gold, five hundred misqals of silver, two Abyssinian slaves, one male and one female each valued at fifty tumans, and some silk worth twenty tumans.
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Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum and Muhammad Karim, 1842 or 1843
Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum, daughter of Aqa Muhammad from Karvan village, and Muhammad Karim, son of Muhammad ‘Ali Tihrani Karvan. The mahr is three hundred tumans. The groom settled the following items in exchange for two hundred and sixty tumans of the mahr: a portion of land and part of a garden/orchard in Hurmanan village, part of a garden/orchard in Divun Farm, some qanats and part of a residential house in Hurmanan village, and a house, along with its stable and garden. The groom also promised if the marriage lasted and the bride obeyed him, he would buy the following items...
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Baygum and Mulla Husayn ʻAli, 1843
Marriage contract of Sakinah Baygum, daughter of Mirza Ghiyas al-Din, and Mulla Husayn ʻAli, son of Muhammad ʻAli Yazdi. The mahr includes half of a house inside [illegible], a garden in ʻIzzabad, two acres of land in the same village, four mans [unit of weight] of copper worth ten tumans, a pair of rugs worth ten tumans, ten tumans for clothes, a chest worth fifteen thousand dinars, a chador, a set of bathing gowns, an inlaid mirror, and gold-made jewelry worth three tumans and five thousand dinars.