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Marriage contract of Banu Khanum and Haj Ghulam Riza, 1921
Marriage contract of Banu Khanum, daughter of the late Haj Javad Darvish, and Haj Ghulam Riza, son of the late Darvish Muhammad Husayn. The mahr includes twenty-one tumans, a Qur'an, parts of a building in the Aqa neighborhood, shares of land in the Ab Bariki Plain, and a share of qanat water in the same plain. On the margin: "On 22 January 1926, Darvish Ghulam Riza sold Banu Khanum's share of the land with her permission, and instead, they included another piece of land as her mahr. On 11 Decemeber 1926, Banu Khanum settled her share of the building with Yad Allah, son of the late Darvish...
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Marriage contract of Munavvarah and Shaykh Ja‘far, 1924
Marriage contract of Munavvarah, daughter of Muhammad Ja‘far, and Shaykh Ja‘far, son of the late Haj Muhammad Husayn. The mahr is twenty-five tumans in cash, twenty-five tumans to buy gold, twenty-five tumans to buy women's clothes, twenty-five tumans to buy rugs, half of a house located in the Buka Abad neighborhood, half of two stores located in the grand bazaar, and some water channels. The groom and his mother settled the mentioned properties in exchange for seven riyals of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Mah Taban and Mirza Ismaʻil, 1888
Marriage contract of Mah Taban, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mustawfi, and Mirza Ismaʻil the accountant, son of Muʻtamad al-Sultan Mirza Ahmad Mustawfi. The mahr includes four hundred tumans in cash, a Qur'an worth thirty tumans, one male slave and one female slave worth seventy tumans, one-sixth of a residential building and a property in Tafrish, and a qanat and a creek in Tasuj. The first three items remain the groom's debt. The groom's father transferred the ownership of the qanat and the creek to the bride.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah and Darvish Husayn
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of Ustad Barat ‘Ali, and Darvish Husayn, son of Darvish Hashim. The mahr includes nine tumans, some rose gold, some copperware, silk and chintz clothes, bedding from Isfahan, a colorful kilim, a residential building in the Aqa neighborhood, and some properties.
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Marriage contract of ‘Iffat Khanum and Mirza ‘Aliriza, 1917
Marriage contract of ‘Iffat Khanum, daughter of Mir Sayyid Mahmud Khan Mu‘tasam al-Dawlah, and Mirza ‘Aliriza Khan Doctor Majma‘ al-Hikmatayn (from Kashan), son of Mirza ‘Ali Akbar Hakim Bashi (from Kashan). The mahr is one thousand two hundred and sixty tumans, including a copy of the Qurʼan, cash, clothing, jewelry, mirrors, lamps, and a piece of land and water share from the ‘Abd Allah farm in Nush Abad village in Kashan.