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Haji Hamzah Aqa's will, 1891
Haji Hamzah Aqa, the merchant from Tabriz, has added the following articles to the will he had drawn up earlier: one, donating his Egyptian fur coat to the executor of his will; two, regarding his deceased wife: he had specified her mahr and her other rights in his will, but since her death, it was paid off in total, except for forty tumans for prayers on her behalf, for which he is still responsible. He has specified that after his death, they should pray for twenty-two years and three months on her behalf; third, regarding the fasts and prayers mentioned in the will: five years should be...
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Letter
Includes greetings and talks about receiving his stipend, selling the wheat, taking care of Safiyah Khanum, sending a jug of cheese, trees dying from lack of irrigation, and requests to be updated on the news of the Tabriz earthquake
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Letter to Yusuf
Regarding Yusuf's stipend, his stay in Tehran, sending Yusuf's belongings from Khuy to Tabriz, property issues, the carpet trade, Sadiq Hazrat quarelling with Mumtaz al-Dawlah over the latter's maltreatment of Sadiq Hazrat's temporary wife, and the problems faced by Armenians
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Letter to ‘Amid Lashkar
Envelope addressed to ‘Amid Lashkar. In the letter, the writer expresses his happiness about the addressee's visit during the days of fasting; reassures him about watering the courtyard plants; asks for a new female servant, since Fatimah has not come; emphasizes their need for barley, since the convoy from Zaviyah village has not delivered it; reports that Mr. Muntasiri has delivered one tuman to them; also reassures him about their allowance; requests some cheese, as the price is increasing. Another letter on a separate sheet refers to the addressee's return to the city, and urges him not...
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List of daily expenses
Written in Siyaq format; including food, household goods, clothing, bath related, stipend of the servants, newsletter, tobacco, alfalfa, cost of the repair of the wire mesh, emptying pool's water, debts, etc.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum and Muhammad ‘Ali, 1870
Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Mashhadi Karim from Usku, and Muhammad ‘Ali, son of Mashhadi ‘Ali from Usku; mahr includes part of a garden and a share of a qanat, and a candlestick worth three thousand five hundred dinars. On verso, dated September 25, 1896, Fatimah Baygum has received eighty tumans for the garden and the qanat share from Haji Sayyid Muhammad Tajir (merchant) from Usku.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Nisa’ and Allah Virdi, 1821
Marriage contract of Khadijah Nisa’, daughter of Mir Mustafa (from Usku), and Karbalayi Allah Virdi, son of Haj Hakim (from Usku); the mahr includes one-fourth of a house-garden complex, a gold patera, one-fourth of a piece of land, and part of the water from Pish-andiz qanat
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Marriage contract of Khanum Jan and Muhammad Baqir, 1869
Marriage contract of Khanum Jan, daughter of Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Razzaq, and Karbalayi Muhammad Baqir, son of Haji Qurban from Usku; mahr includes a garden and its share of water from a qanat, part of a house, a pair of gold earrings worth five tumans, and a gold ring worth one tuman, which remains the father of the groom's debt, as well as twenty tumans, which remains groom's debt
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Mirza Hasan Rushdiyah and family
Pictured in the back row, from the left (standing) are: [illegible], Nizam al-Din, Monsieur [illegible], [illegible], Kavah, Shams al-Din Khan, and Jamal al-Din Khan; middle row from left (seated): unidentified child, Shahnaz Khanum, Khanum[-i] Doctor [Dr. Rushdi's wife ?], Doctor Rushdi, Haj Mirza Hasan Rushdiyah holding a child on his lap, unidentified, Mahin Banu, unidentified, and unidentified child; and in the front row, from the left (the children), are: Hushang Khan, Samarah Khanum, Faridun Khan, [illegible] Khanum, Sa‘id Khan, and [illegible] Khanum.
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Regarding Hajiyah Khanum's properties
Copy of the statement by Haji Mirza Ibrahim Shari‘atmadar (local religious notable) on how Haji Aqa ‘Ali Akbar used the property owned by his wife, Hajiyah Khanum (daughter of Aqa Muhammad), became in debt and thus settled his own property to Hajiyah Khanum and her two children while paying a sum to his other two children from his temporary wives. Hajiyah Khanum dealt with Aqa ‘Ali Akbar's creditors after his death, gave her daughter her share of inheritance and married her off. Mirza Ibrahim writes about his own disagreement with this marriage and the husband's misbehaviour. Therefore,...
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