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Marriage contract of Sughra and Hashim, 1881
Marriage contract of Sughra, daughter of Asad Allah Runani, and Hashim, son of ‘Ali Rurani, with a mahr of eighteen tumans and one-twelfth of a residential property located in the Masal region.
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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum and Muhammad ʻAli, 1861
Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum, known as Bibi, daughter of the late Muhammad Rahim from Qaynan in Isfahan, and Muhammad ʻAli, son of the late ʻAli Akbar, resident of Shinabad village. The mahr is twenty-two and one-half tumans. Following this contract, the groom settled with the bride over some property for ten tumans of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Bagum and Sayyid Hasan, 1886
Marriage contract of Sakinah Bagum, daughter of Haj Mirza Habib Allah, and Sayyid Hasan, son of Sayyid ʻAli. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which remains the groom's debt, and one-third of Dizaj Param village, which the groom's father willingly gives as a part of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Haj ‘Ali, 1879
Marriage contract of Sughra, daughter of Haj Ghulam Riza Runani, and Haj ‘Ali, son of ‘Ali ‘Askar from Runan. The mahr includes eighteen tumans, one-twelfth of a residential building in the Tahunah region of Runan village, and some land. The mahr remains groom's debt. On the margin: "On February 3, 1898, Sughra Khanum settled some of the land with Haj ‘Ali in exchange for ten loads of wheat and some other land."
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun and Muhammad Husayn, 1852
Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun known as Khanum Jun, daughter of Ustad Aqa, and Muhammad Husayn, son of Muhammad ‘Ali Sarraf. The mahr is twenty tumans. The groom settled one-twelfth of his residential property located behind the Shah ‘Ali Bath, transferred to him by his mother, in exchange for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of wheat with the bride, all of which was subtracted from the mahr. The groom additionally agreed to buy five misqals [unit of weight] of red gold and three mans [unit of weight] of copperware for the bride. The personal seal of the groom's...
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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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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 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...