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Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisaʼ Baygum and Mirza Zayn al-ʻAbidin, 1814
Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisaʼ Baygum, the daughter of Mir Muhammad ʻAli, and Mirza Zayn al-ʻAbidin, the son of Mirza Jaʻfar, with a mahr of: 12 tumans equal to some crimson gold, 12 mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper, a carpet for two tumans, a set of bedding for one tuman, one sixth of a house located behind the jamiʻ mosque. On June 8, 1845, Sayyid Zayn al-ʻAbidin settled one third of a house, the household furnishings including tableware, carpets, and copper with Khayr al-Nisaʼ Khanum in exchange for her mahr.
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Marriage contract of Zahra Baygum and Aqa Shaykh Asad Allah, 1907
Marriage contract of Zahra Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Mirza Husayn the confectioner, and Aqa Shaykh Asad Allah, the son of Aqa Shaykh Mufid. The mahr was twenty six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars, part of which was settled between the bride and the groom.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Baygum and Mirza ‘Abd al-Baqi, 1824
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Baygum, the daughter of Sayyid Aqa Abu Turab, and Mirza ‘Abd al-Baqi, the son of Haji Sayyid ‘Abd al-Rasul; the mahr is one hundred tumans, which has been settled in exchange for one hundred dinars and one-sixth of a house in Bab al-Dasht neighborhood.
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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Khanum and Ahmad Aqa, 1883
Marriage contract of Ummah [Umm] Kulsum Khanum, the daughter of Haji Muhammad Isma‘il Arbab, and Haji Ahmad Aqa, the son of Muhammad Husayn Arbab. The mahr is five hundred tumans and a copy of the Qur’an, which remains the groom's debt. According to a note on the first page, dated 1902, Umm Kulsum Khanum settled her mahr and all her rights with Haji Ahmad Aqa in exchange for three hundred tumans.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum with ʻAli ʻAskar Ruknabadi, 1908
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum (daughter of ʻAbd al-Razzaq, the fabric weaver) and ʻAli ʻAskar Ruknabadi (son of ʻAli [?]) on August 9, 1908. The mahr includes three sixths of a house, three sixths of a garden in Ghulam's village in Bagh Bala, and twenty tumans, five tumans of which are to be received directly by the bride and fifteen tumans of which are to be received later. The three sixths of the house are to be settled by the groom's mother and is part of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Khanum with Aqa Mirza Ibrahim, 1896
Marriage contract between Sakinah Khanum, daughter of Farrashbashi, and Aqa Mirza Ibrahim, son of the deceased Farrashbashi, with a mahr of 15 tumans. Part of a garden was also settled between the two.
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Marriage contract of Hajar Khanum and Ghulam Riza Khan, 1905
Marriage contract of Hajar Khanum, the daughter of Muʻtamad al-Sultan Aqa Ghulam Riza Khan, and Aqa Ghulam Riza Khan, the son of Haji Aqa Muhammad Khan Amin al-Raʻaya. The mahr was twenty mans [unit of agricultural land] of a property and the use of water from a qanat, some pieces of land, as well as some rugs, copperware, bedding, and gold worth six hundred tumans in total. On verso, it is noted that Hajar Khanum transferred the money to Aqa Mirza ʻAli Aqa, the son of Haji Muhammad Riza to use as he sees fit on September 9, 1927.
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Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisa’ and Ramazan ‘Ali, 1863
Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisa’, daughter of the late Karbalayi ‘Abd al-‘Ali from Haji Mahal neighborhood of Lahijan, and Ramazan ‘Ali, son of Mirza Baba Muhammad from Lahijan. The mahr is sixty-six tumans and three thousand three hundred fifty dinars to buy Baghdadi wrapping cloth, some women's clothes, a gold ring, a gold talisman, and eight gold coins. The rest of the mahr as cash. On the margin: "The bride settled with her brother, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali, exchanging twenty tumans for a set of clothes."
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Marriage contract of Shahrbanu and Ibrahim, 1900
Marriage contract of Shahrbanu, daughter of Karbalayi Yar Murad from Kahriz, and Ibrahim, son of Muhammad from Bahmanabad. The mahr is forty tumans, of which half was paid and the rest remains the groom's debt. The mahr additionally includes one-twelfth of the garden of the groom's father, a set of bedding made in Burujird worth three tumans, and a copper ewer and basin made in Kashan worth one tuman and five thousand dinars. On February, 13, 1903, Shahrbanu transferred the ownership of the mentioned properties to her father, and her father settled them with Sayf al-Dawlah for five tumans.
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Marriage contract of Nur al-‘Ayn Khanum and Nasr Allah Khan Qajar, 1898
Marriage contract of Nur al-‘Ayn Khanum, daughter of Muhammad Mahdi Khan (son of Vakil al-Mulk), and Nasr Allah Khan Qajar, son of Muhammad Husayn Khan (son of Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Qajar from Kirman); mahr is one thousand one hundred and ten tumans. At the same time, Nasr Allah Khan settled with Nur al-‘Ayn Khanum over a share of water in a property in Chamak, Isfandaqah worth one thousand tumans, as part of her mahr.
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