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Divorce affidavit, 1851
The document reads: "It has been asked that those faithful and righteous people who are knowledgeable and benevolent testify that on September 6, 1851, I was present at Mirza ʻAbd al-Javad's house and Sara, known as Kuchak Khanum, the daughter of Mulla ʻAbd Allah Jadid al-Islam, was also present and transferred all of her mahr, which was 60 tumans and 20 misqal gold, to me and I divorced her instead and left the divorce contract by Mirza ʻAbd al-Javad." On the margin: "The wife mentioned was divorced by her husband in the presence of the claimant, foregoing her mahr. The divorce document...
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Marriage contract of Bibi Bilqays and Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi, 1891
Marriage contract of Bibi Bilqays, daughter of Mirza Muhammad ʻAli Mustawfi, and Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi known as Badiʻ al-Shuʻara, son of Sadr al-Zakirin, with a mahr of 300 tumans, which includes: 60 tumans in cash paid to the bride, one of the twelve shares from a series of qanat in Nayshabur worth 150 tumans, a property worth 75 tumans, and some gold that remains the groom's debt. Gawhar, daughter of Haj Husayn Haj al-Haramayn, mother of Mulla Sulayman, signed to give permission to the transfer of the share of ʻAli Abad's farm.
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Copy of a marriage contract between Kulsum and Akhund Mulla Qasim, 1858
Copy of a marriage contract between Kulsum, daughter of Akhund Mulla Husayn, and Akhund Mulla Qasim, son of Karbalayi ʻAli Muhammad, with a mahr of 800 Nasiri rials, which includes: half a share of the twelve shares of Karizak farm, worth 40 tumans, part of a property in Nayshabur, worth 10 tumans, 16 tumans in cash for clothes, gold worth 8 tumans, six mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper worth six tumans.
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Marriage contract of Zubaydah and Jaʻfar Quli, 1868
Marriage contract of Zubaydah, the daughter of Muhammad ʻAli the sheriff, and Jaʻfar Quli, the son of Husayn from Dih-i Naw. The mahr includes: five mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper, carpets to cover a room, sheep, two outfits to be bought, a house, silver and crimson gold, and pieces of lands.
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Marriage contract of Ruqiyah and Ustad Muhammad, 1872
Marriage contract of Ruqiyah, the daughter of Karbalayi ʻAli Turab, and Ustad Muhammad, the son of Ustad Hasan Karbalayi Salih. The mahr includes: five mans of copper, 10 mans of carpets, kilims, and felt, a set of bedding, two outfits to be bought, half of the price of a house to be bought, crimson gold, silver, and money which remains on groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah and Sayyid ʻAli, 1852
Marriage contract of Fatimah, the daughter of Rajab (the son of Karbalayi Muhammad Muslim), and Sayyid ʻAli, the son of Mir Habib. The mahr includes: five tumans in cash, a property priced at five tumans, five mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper priced at 25000 [dinars], a quarter of an inherited garden priced at two tumans, some pieces of land close to the river priced at one tuman, a man and half of silk priced at [illegible] tumans, two sets of outfits priced at two tumans that were received, a set of bedding priced at one tuman that was received, a handmade carpet priced at one...
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Marriage contract of Fatimah and Ustad ʻAli, 1873
Marriage contract of Fatimah, the daughter of Murad ʻAli Jumʻah, and Ustad ʻAli, the son of Husayn, known as Jamal. The mahr includes: one sixth of a house bought from Ustad ʻAli, son of Ismaʻil, two outfits worth five or seven tumans, five mans of copper for two-and-a-half tumans, carpets and felt worth two-and-a-half tumans, and gold and silver, worth two and half tumans each. Four tumans remain the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Zinat Baygum and Mulla ʻAli, 1863
Marriage contract of Zinat Baygum, the daughter of Haj Muhammad Bayg, and Mulla ʻAli, the son of Haj Muhammad Karbalayi, with a mahr of 85 tumans, including gold and silver, four sets of outfits, a carpet to cover a room, 18 mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper, a camel, sheep, part of the water usage of a qanat in Sarbishah village, and pieces of land bought by Mulla Muhammad Karbalayi Safar for five tumans.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud, son of Mirza Muhammad Husayn, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: two shares of use of water from a qanat worth 500 tumans, clothes worth 200 tumans, gold worth 150 tumans, two carpets worth 50 tumans, 50 mans [each man is three kilograms] of copperware made in Yazd worth 75 tumans, silver worth 250 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 40 tumans, a slave and a male servant worth 80 tumans. These items were settled for the stipulated amount of money [1120 tumans].
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Marriage contract of Shahrbanu and Haj Muhammad, 1883
Marriage contract of Shahrbanu, the daughter of Karbalayi Husayn Ustad ʻAli Asghar, and Haj Muhammad, the son of Karbalayi ʻAli Akbar (son of ʻAli Karbalayi Qasim). The mahr includes: pieces of land, water use, two sixths of the house of the groom's mother, clothes to be bought for three tumans, five mans of copper worth three and half tumans, carpets, kilims, and felt worth two-and-a-half tumans, a set of bedding worth two tumans, gold worth one tuman and 5000 [dinars], silver worth three tumans, and ten tumans cash. Asides from the ten tumans cash, the rest remain the groom’s parents’...