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Marriage contract of Gawhar al-Saltanah and Fath‘ali Vaziri, 1918
Marriage contract of Narjis Khanum, known as Gawhar al-Saltanah, the daughter of Shahzadah Mubashshir al-Sultan, and Sultan Fath‘ali Khan [Vaziri], the son of [Bibi Khanum Astarabadi and] Musa Khan Mirpanjah [Vaziri]. The mahr is 750 tumans, a Qurʼan (worth 10 tumans), a mirror, and two lamps. Of this, the bride received 250 tumans, the mirror, and the lamps, while the remaining 500 tumans adn the 10 tumans (the value of the Qurʼan) were charged to the groom.
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Marriage contract between Kubra Khanum and Taqi Khan, 1925
Marriage contract between Kubra Khanum, the daughter of Hamzah ʻAli Bayg, and Taqi Khan (who works in municipality), the son of Yusuf Khan Tabrizi, dated May 2, 1925. The mahr is 130 tumans, of which the bride received 50 tumans and the Qurʼan and 80 tumans were charged to the bridegroom, a Qurʼan worth 5 tumans, a mirror, and a crystal base.
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Marriage contract of Marziyah Khanum and Mirza Mahdi, 1929
Marriage contract of Marziyah Khanum, the daughter of Haj Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ha’iri Mazandarani, and Aqa Mirza Mahdi known as Asad Allah-zadah. The mahr was one thousand and five hundred tumans, a pair of lamps, a mirror, and a Qur’an worth ten tumans. Five hundred tumans in addition to the lamps and the mirror was received. One thousand tumans and the Qur’an remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Khanum and Muhammad Sadiq, 1898
Marriage contract of Kawkab Khanum, daughter of ‘Ali, and Muhammad Sadiq, son of Husaynquli, with the description of the mahr, which included 5000 dinars and 25 tumans.
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Marriage contract between Gawhar Khanum and Mirza Mahmud, 1887
Marriage contract between Gawhar Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahmud, the son of Muhammad Sadiq, dated December 1st, 1887. The mahr is a Qurʼan worth two tumans, a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan worth 5 tumans, a carpet, a kilim worth 10 tumans, and three sixths of the properties inherited by the bridegroom. A note on the verso reads: "the record of Nanah Gawhar (the mother of our mother, Sakinah Khatun)'s mahr."
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...
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- Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ha’iri (Rahmat ‘Ali Shah)(1)
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- Narjis Khanum (Gawhar al-Saltanah)(1)
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