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Marriage contract of Nargis Khatun Sirati and Mirza Hashim Khan Kasravi Mustawfi
Marriage contract between Nargis, daughter of Muhammad Qasim (from Niyavaran village) and Mirza Hashim Khan Mustawfi (from ‘Ali Shah ‘Avaz village). The mahr is seventy tumans, of which the bridegroom has paid thirty and owes forty tumans and a Qurʼan to the bride, 1911.
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Marriage contract of Zubaydah Khanum and Mirza Ahmad
Marriage contract of Zubaydah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Muhammad Taqi Khan, and Mirza Ahmad Nur Salihi Garakani, son of Mirza Muhammad Garakani, with a mahr of two hundred and fifty one tumans, 1915.
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List of wedding expenditures, 1919
List of five months’ worth of wedding expenditures including five tumans for the grocery and other necessary items. On the back of the page, there is a list of debt and expenses in 1918, such as the cost of his mother's funeral.
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Badr al-Samaʼ and Mirza ʻAli Akbar, 1915
Marriage contract between Badr al-Samaʼ, daughter of Yad Allah Mirza, and Mirza ʻAli Akbar (a Tabrizi merchant), son of Mirza Riza (a physician). The mahr includes 1500 tumans and a Qurʼan.
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Marriage contract of Nazanin Baygum and Aqa Muhammad Riza, 1910
Marriage contract of Nazanin Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Karbalayi ‘Ali and Aqa Muhammad Riza, the son of Aqa Mashhadi Asad Allah. The mahr is twenty six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars, a Qur‘an (one tuman value), seven misqals of gold (twenty one tumans value), and a portion of land, which was settled to the groom by Khavar Sultan, the daughter of Aqa Mashhadi Muhammad Javad, in exchange for some wheat and one hundred dinars. Aside from the piece of land, the mahr totals forty eight tumans and two and a half qirans [two thousand and five hundred dinars], which remains the...