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Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826
Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak, the daughter of Ustad Husayn Fakhkhar from Yazd, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Hasan (son of Zu al-Fiqar Naqi) with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: 10 shares of the shared ownership of a house (the ownership of which was divided into 80 shares), an outfit worth 10 tumans, two-and-a-half Shah-mans [each is six kilograms] of copper worth five tumans, gold, and a carpet for covering a room, worth five tumans. The groom's mother contributed the gold and the house, his father contributed the carpet, and the rest remain the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum and Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi from Herat, 1889
Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Mirza Jan Mustawfi, and Mirza Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi from Herat, the son of Mirza Muhammad from Herat, with a mahr of 300 tumans including: gold and jewelry worth 100 tumans, a carpet, bedding and copper worth 100 tumans, a Qurʼan worth fifty tumans, and an Abyssinian female slave worth fifty tumans. The marriage vows were said by the attorneys of both parties.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Bibi and Muhammad Taqi, 1913
Marriage contract of Fatimah Bibi, the daughter of Mashhadi ʻAli Akbar, and Muhammad Taqi, the son of Mashhadi Asad Allah, with a mahr of 70 tumans. The wife has received 20 tumans, and the rest will be paid to her upon her request, if the husband can afford it.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan and Mirza Asad Allah, 1920
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi Riza the merchant, and Mirza Asad Allah, with a mahr of 200 tumans that remains on groom's debt. The condition of granting the wife the right to determine the location of their residence was removed from the contract's conditions.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah and Mulla Haj Muhammad, 1923
Marriage contract of Fatimah, the daughter of Mulla Ghulam Husayn, and Mulla Haj Muhammad, the son of Karbalayi Mulla ʻAli, with a mahr of 755 tumans, which includes: pieces of land, water usage right of qanat, part of a house, a carpet to cover a room, gold, silver, clothes, and copper. On March 25, 1928 the husband transferred the ownership of some pieces of land to his wife.
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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 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 Halimah and ʻAbd Allah, 1874
Marriage contract of Halimah, the daughter of Rajab, and ʻAbd Allah, son of Sayyid Muhammad, with a mahr of five tumans, which remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan and Mulla Ghulamhusayn, 1932
Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan, the daughter of Habib, and Mulla Ghulamhusayn, the son of Mulla Nazar ʻAli, with a mahr of: some pieces of land, five local mans of copper worth seven tumans, ten mans of kilims and felt worth 10 tumans, two outfits to be bought for six tumans, a set of bedding worth five tumans, 50 tumans that remain the groom's debt, and two sixths of an inherited house. The husband gave power of attorney for his wife to divorce herself if he does not pay his wife the monthly alimony of 15 qirans for three years (due to travel or absence from home) in the 50 years after...