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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 Zahra and Muhammad Taqi Bayk, 1834
Marriage contract of Zahra, daughter of Mirza Muhammad Bayg, and Muhammad Taqi Bayg. The mahr, which remains the groom's debt, is seven tumans.
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Marriage contract of Mihr Jahan and Najafquli, 1829
Marriage contract of Mihr Jahan, with Mulla Muhammad (preacher) as attorney, and Najafquli, son of Haj Fath‘ali Bayg, with Haj Mirza ‘Abd al-Jabbar (judge) as attorney. The mahr is three thousand tumans and a copy of a Qur’an; one thousand and five hundred tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Letter to wife regarding divorce, 1822 or 1823
The writer objects to divorce the addressee and mentions his request of mediation from Mahd-i ‘Ulya and Nasir al-Din Shah
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Kulsum nanah
The book of "Five ʻUlamaʼ" or "Kulsum nanah," attributed to Aqa Jamal Khansari, created originally in Safavid era. The author provides an account of women's beliefs and rituals and attributes them to five women, one of them named Kulsum nanah. The book is written in fifteen chapters, including: on ablution, on women's prayers, on fasting, on marriage, on the wedding night, on childbirth, on first bath after giving birth, on musical instruments and when they should be played, on wives and husbands relations, on foods for vows, to prevent evil eye, on mahrams, on acceptance of women's...
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Marriage contract between Sakinah Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Saʻid, 1825
Marriage contract between Sakinah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Sadiq, and Aqa Muhammad Saʻid, the son of Aqa Ismaʻil, dated April or May 1825. The mahr is 60 tumans, a female slave worth 21 tumans, four sixths of a building in Fath Abad, two pieces of land in Vadasht, and a garden in Fath Abad. On the verso [Sakinah Khanum], has transferred a piece of land (with an area of 25 qafiz) in Vadasht, along with its crops and hay, to Muhammad Baqir, the son of Mirza Kazim the physician, in exchange for another piece of land (with an area of 7 qafiz) that includes a garden in the...
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Marriage contract between Shahrbanu and Mirza Husayn, 1833
Marriage contract between Shahrbanu, the daughter of Aqa Ismaʻil, and Mirza Husayn, the son of Haj Sadiq, dated May 8, 1833. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, a room's carpets, including rugs and felt rugs worth 34 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering worth 4 tumans, and parts of some properties. On the verso: "Mirza Rahim, Muhammad Baqir, and their sister, Khadijah Khanum, who are the children of Mirza Husayn, settled with full consent whatever rights they had to their mother's mahr. June 28, 1875. [Shahrbanu Khanum] settled with her three children, four and half sixths of the buildings in the...
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Marriage contract of Gawhar Sultan Baygum and Mirza Fulad, 1828
Marriage contract of Gawhar Sultan Baygum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Taqi, and Mirza Fulad, the son of Mirza Khvajah Muhammad Darmiyani, with a mahr of 150 tumans, which includes: water usage, gold and jewelry, some properties, part of a shop, carpets for covering two rooms. On verso, the mother of Mirza Ghulamriza has stated that she has given her son her properties and lands.
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Marriage contract of Kulsum Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Ibrahim, 1820
Marriage contract of Kulsum Khanum, the daughter of Abu al-Qasim, and Aqa Muhammad Ibrahim, the son of Muhammad Hadi Khvurasgani; the mahr includes: twelve tumans of Tabrizi currency used in trade conducted in Isfahan, one-sixth of a residential building worth three tumans, some crimson gold, five mans [unit of weight] of copperware, and one cow worth two tumans. The groom must pay the above mahr to the bride upon her request, if he can afford it.
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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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