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Naqdah wedding dress
The top layer is tulle embroidered with gold metal thread. Note the heavy embroidery on the collar. The sleeves end with handmade lace. The under layer is of silk and also heavily embroidered with gold on the chest and at the bottom. The collar, sleeves and hem have bands of naqdah embroidery. Probably from Isfahan.
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Naqdah wedding jacket
Tulle embroidered with gold and silver metal thread and decorated with six-corner stars.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, 1914
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi ‘Ali, the baker from Isfahan, and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, known as Mukarram, from Habib Abad. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two qirans and ten shahis, and three misqals [unit of weight] of gold. The bride settled two thousand five hundred dinars of her mahr with the groom for a Qurʼan worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Taj Mah Sultan and Muhammad Riza, 1895
Marriage contract of Taj Mah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi Muhammad Javad, and Muhammad Riza, son of Muhammad Hasan. The mahr is thirty tumans, a part of a house in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Isfahan, and two misqals [unit of weight] of golden jewelry.
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Marriage contract of Zahra and Muhammad Husayn, 1831
Marriage contract of Zahra, daughter of Muhammad Husayn, and Muhammad Husayn, son of the late ʻAli Quli Bayg known as Aqa Baba. The mahr is seventy tumans. The bride settled thirty-five tumans of her mahr with the groom in exchange for one-twelfth of a house, located at Baghkaran neighborhood of Isfahan, and fifteen misqals [unit of weight] of gold. In a note on the margin, dated 27 November 1831, the wife has denied transferring her mahr to the late Ghulam Husayn and claims her mahr.
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Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum and Mirza Mahdi Quli, 1927
Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahdi Quli, son of Mirza Sayyid Asad Allah. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, white gold worth twenty-five tumans, women's clothing worth twenty-five tumans, and twenty-five tumans in cash. The groom and his father settled some properties and some water channels for fourteen riyals of the mahr with the bride.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, 1923
Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan, daughter of Mulla Ghulam Husayn, son of Muhammad Hasan, and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, son of Muhammad ‘Ali. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans as an initial gift, twenty-five tumans for women's clothing, twenty-five tumans for rugs, twenty-five tumans for gold, some properties, and a share of water use. The groom settled the properties and the share of water use with the bride for fourteen riyals of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah and Kazim from Isfarjan, 1830
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of ʻAli Naqi from Isfarjan, and Kazim from Isfarjan. The mahr includes three tumans, four misqals [unit of weight] of golden jewelry, copperware, a set of local women’s clothes and a set of European women's clothes, chintz bedding from Isfahan, a rug, one colorful kilim, a pair of felt rugs, and for the purchase price of some properties.
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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...
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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...