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Marriage contract of Nusrat (Manizhah) Ghaffari and Muhammad Siyahpush, 1931
Marriage contract of Nusrat Khanum Ghaffari known as Manizhah, daughter of Mirza ‘Alikhan Ghaffari, and Mirza Muhammad Siyahpush, son of Mirza Husayn Khan Siyahpush. The mahr is seven hundred tumans. Two hundred tumans worth has been received in the form of fifty tumans, three carpets worth one hundred and twenty tumans, and a bedding set worth thirty tumans.
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Marriage contract of Batul Baygum and Mirza Muhammad, 1925
Marriage contract of Batul Baygum, the daughter of Haj Mirza Muhammad ʻAli, and Mirza Muhammad, the son of Mirza Shaʻban. The mahr is 1000 tumans, which includes: one sixth of a house worth 500 tumans, copper worth 60 tumans, four sheep and goats worth 100 tumans, one woolen carpet worth 100 tumans, a set of bedding worth 50 tumans, and a carpet worth 160 tumans.
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Marriage contract between Fatimah Baygum Khanum and Muʼtaman al-Sultan Mirza Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi Hirati, 1941
Marriage contract between Fatimah Baygum Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Jan Mustawfi Hirati, and Muʼtaman al-Sultan Mirza Muhammad Husayn Mustawfi Hirati, the son of Mirza Muhammad Hirati. The mahr is 300 tumans, of which 100 tumans is the price of gold and jewelry, 100 tumans is the price of carpets, bedding, and copper dishes, 50 tumans is the price of a Qurʼan, and 50 tumans is the price of an Abyssinian slave.
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Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa and Mulla Lutf Allah, 1928
Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid Mahdi, and Mulla Lutf Allah, the son of Mulla Aqa Mirza. The mahr is twenty six tumans, a Qur’an (valued at one tuman), two-sixths of their house of residence, a portion of land, a set of bedding from Isfahan, some copperware from Isfahan, a rug, and a piece of clothing for a wedding. The above items, except the Qur’an and the money, amount to a total of forty five tumans, which remains the groom's debt. The note on the margin says: the house, the land, the copperware, and the rug were settled for thirty five tumans and the rest...
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Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927
Marriage contract between Bibi Layla, the daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAbbas (son of Karbalayi Sayyid Maʻsum from Birjand), and Muhammad Husayn, son of Mulla Zayn al-ʻAbidin, on January 24, 1927. The mahr, which is 84 tumans and will remain the bridegroom's debt, includes: two shares of half of a day's use of the water from the qanat of Hasanabad farm for 32 tumans, half of a house in Arviz village for 6 tumans, kilims and felt for carpeting one room for four tumans, four women's dresses to buy and to make for five tumans, ten mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for six...
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Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum and Qadam‘ali, 1927
Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali, and Qadam‘ali, the son of Aqa ‘Ali. The mahr is eighty nine tumans. The groom settled the following, which his father had settled to him earlier, to the bride: one-sixth of a house, some shares of water (worth 20 tumans), a set of bedding (10 tumans), rugs (15 tumans), copperwares (5 tumans), and a cow (five tumans). These amount to seventy seven tumans from the mahr in total, and the remaining twelve tumans remains the groom's debt.