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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 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 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 and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...
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Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, 1939
Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha, daughter of Sayyid Karim son of Sayyid Habib Allah from Khuzan, and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, son of Sayyid Hashim Furushani. The mahr includes one-twelfth of a house in Furushan village, and ninety tumans, of which twenty-six tumans and two-and-one-half riyals remain the groom's debt. The rest should be spent on gold, cotton wool, chintz, trays, and rugs. The groom's father transferred ownership of one-twelfth of the house to his son.
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Copy of settlement between Rubabah and Fatimah Sultan, 1900
Copy of a settlement between Rubabah, daughter of Muhammad Khalil, son of Haj Muhammad from Qazvin and resident of Isfahan, and her aunt, Fatimah Sultan, daughter of the merchant Muhammad Mahdi from Qazvin and resident of Isfahan, who is Rubabah's mother-in-law, exchanging everything that Rubabah owns, including property, money, gold jewelry, copperware, books, furniture, clothes, and dishes for seventy-five grams of sugar candy.