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Basat-i nishat
A sarcastic and male-centered essay in which noble women are "ugly" or old, and female slaves are pretty, kind and well-behaved.There are parts on men's desire for men and women's desire for women, vows of sisterhood, preparation of the bride and groom for the wedding night, wives and husbands relationships, etc. Parts of the document refer to Kulsum Nanah. At the end, there is a review of different types of pleasure according to their length.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda's house
One of the old houses of the Zoroastrian neighborhood in Yazd. According to the inscription on the stone plaque above the entrance: “In August (or September) of 2011, the children of Kaykhusraw Kadkhuda endowed this house in his memory to the Zoroastrian Society of Yazd, so that it can be used for charitable and religious matters.” The entrance hall leads on one side to a room and on the other to the large main courtyard of the house. As one enters the courtyard, the “piskam mas”(or main open salon), used for ceremonial purposes, is located to the left.
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List of daily expenses
Written in Siyaq format; including food, household goods, clothing, bath related, stipend of the servants, newsletter, tobacco, alfalfa, cost of the repair of the wire mesh, emptying pool's water, debts, etc.
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Letter to Bibi Sahib
About purchasing hay for donkeys, fabric, jewelry, shoes, water pipe base, etc.
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Letter from Ghulam Husayn ‘Amiri to Qamar al-Muluk ‘Amiri
Letter from Ghulam Husayn ‘Amiri to his wife, Qamar al-Muluk ‘Amiri, about receiving the oranges, requesting some envelopes, the news of Husayn Abad's qanat being destroyed by flood, shortage and high costs of goods, too much rain and damage to the bath, looking for a female slave, selling wheat, and kissing ‘Ishrat and his other daughter, whom he has not seen yet
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Dowry registry of Sayyidah Khanum, 1899
Dowry registry of Sayyidah Khanum, daughter of Aqa Sayyid Ashraf, delivered to Aqa Sayyid Mahdi's house on February 27, 1899, which witnesses confirmed. The items include clothing, wrapping cloths, kitchenware, and bath accessories.
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Nizam al-Mamalik's booklet of household expenditure, 1903
The booklet starts from March 1903.
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Identifying Shahzadah Khanum's financial rights, 1906
Written on the envelope: "Determining Shahzadah Khanum's financial rights and what Muhammad Riza Khan, the brigadier of Urumiyah owes her, as testified by a group of Urumiyah's wealthy gentlemen."
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Letter
Letter of greeting addressed to my dear Khanum
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