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Marriage contract of Sharaf Nisa’ Khanum and Imam Virdi Bayg, 1719
Marriage contract of Sharaf Nisa’ Khanum, daughter of Mirza Baqir Durmini, and Imam Virdi Bayg, son of Haj Muhammad Hasan Durmini. The mahr is forty tumans. The groom additionally agreed to buy some goldware worth ten tumans for the bride whenever he could afford it. With his father's consent, the groom transferred the ownership of one-sixth of his parents' residential building to the bride as part of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum and Jaʻfar Quli Khan, 1926
Marriage contract of Khadijah Khanum, daughter of Mirza ‘Alinaqi Khan, and Ja‘far Quli Khan, son of Haji ‘Ali Aqa Jan; mahr includes some pieces of land with water rights, as well as half of a house
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Marriage contract of Fakhr al-Sadat Khanum and Mashhadi ‘Abd Allah, 1914
Marriage contract between Fakhr al-Sadat Khanum, daughter of Sayyid ‘Abd Allah, and Mashhadi ‘Abd Allah, son of Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Rahman from Shiraz but residing in Tehran; the mahr is a copy of a Qurʼan and one hundred ten tumans, of which the bride received thirty tumans and the remaining eighty tumans remain the groom’s debt. The witnesses are Haj ‘Abbasquli Sahm al-Mulk Bayat from Arak and Nusrat Allah.