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Marriage contract of Khatun Jajanam [Khatun Jan Khanum [?]] with Muhammad Husayn, 1874
The marriage contract of Khatun Jajanam [Khatun Jan Khanum [?]], the daughter of Haj Muhammad Sadiq, and Muhammad Husayn, the son of Haj Muhammad Baqir on 29 September 1874. The mahr includes 12 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering (made in Isfahan), carpet, a walnut tree, a garden, and one twelfth of a house (including sanctuary, storage room, a room, and stable).
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Marriage contract between Khvurshid Khanum and Asad Allah, 1876
Marriage contract between Khvurshid Khanum, the daughter of Habib Allah, and Asad Allah, the son of Aqa Jaʻfar, dated December 18, 1876. The mahr includes 30 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering from Isfahan worth 4 tumans, room carpets including a rug and corner felt rugs worth 8 tumans, parts of lands and gardens, some properties in Vadasht, and one and a third walnut trees. On the verso: "after dividing the properties of Aqa Jaʻfar among his children, and calculating the shares of the bridegroom's brothers, one acre from the four acre lands of Aqa Taqi was settled for [fifteen] qafiz of the...
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Marriage contract between Maryam Khanum (Junjun Khanum) and Muhammad Ismaʻil, 1865
A marriage contract between Maryam Khanum (Junjun Khanum), the daughter of Haj Muhammad Shafiʻ, and Muhammad Ismaʻil, the son of Haj Muhammad Baqir on 8 May 1865. The mahr is 70 tumans (equal to 40 misqal gold), carpets and rugs for a room, part of a mansion, a garden, a qalamkar bed covering of 7 tuman. On the verso, there are two notes. The first one dates a settlement between the wife and husband on 8 May 1877 and states that since the husband has sold three of the properties in the mahr, he transfers the ownership of three other properties to his wife. The second note dates to 5 May...
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Marriage contract between Zinat al-Nisaʼ Khanum with Aqa Muhammad Sadiq, 1854
Marriage contract between Zinat al-Nisaʼ Khanum, the daughter of Aqa ʻAli, and Muhammad Sadiq, the son of Mirza Husayn, on June 23, 1854. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, a room's carpets, including a rug and a pair of felt rugs, a qalamkar bed covering, parts of some gardens and one sixth of a dyer's shop. These properties were part of the bridegroom's mother's mahr but went on to be included in the bride's mahr. On the verso there are two settlements: the first is between the bride [Zinat al-Nisaʼ Khanum] and her paternal uncle, Aqa Mirza Husayn, dated June 23, 1854, regarding some...
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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 of Fatimah Khanum with Mirza Rahim, 1868
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad and Mirza Rahim, the son of Mirza Husayn, on April 11, 1868. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, room carpets including a rug and felt worth 10 tumans, and a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan. It also includes some properties belonging to the bridegroom's mother, father, and paternal aunt, which were settled with the bridegroom and were then included in mahr. A note on the verso reads: "Aqa Mirza Rahim"
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Marriage contract of Maʻsumah and Karbalayi Hasan, 1892
Marriage contract of Maʻsumah, the daughter of Mukarram, and Karbalayi Hasan, the son of Ismaʻil. The mahr is 27 tumans: two sixths of a plum garden for ten tumans, a share of water usage of [...] for four tumans, a carpet and a woolen carpet for one tuman, a set of bedding for one tuman, 6 sheep and goats for two tumans, three mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for one tuman, two outfits made of silk and foreign textiles for two tumans, two upper and lower houses for two tumans, and five tumans in cash.
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Marriage contract of Shahrbanu with Karbalayi ʻAbbas, 1896
Marriage contract of Shahrbanu, the daughter of Karbalayi Ibrahim, and Karbalayi ʻAbbas, the son of Ismaʻil. The mahr is 30 tumans, which includes: two-sixths of a plum garden for seven tumans, two upper and lower houses for five tumans, part of water usage for four tumans, five sheep and a goat for two tumans, a set of bedding and sleepwear for one tuman, a carpet and a wool carpet for two tumans, two-and-a-half mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper, four tumans in cash, and two sets of outfits bought from the bazaar for three tumans. On February 3, 1897 the husband gave one...
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Marriage contract of Shahbaz Khanum and Ustad Ahmad, 1876
Marriage contract of Shahbaz Khanum, daughter of Ustad Kazim from Usku, and Ustad Ahmad, son of Ustad Malik Najjar (carpenter) from Usku; the mahr includes one-fourth of a garden, a set of bedding worth three tumans, a gold ring worth five thousand dinars, a pair of candlesticks worth one tuman, a bath tray worth seven thousand dinars, all remaining the groom's father's debt, as well as fifteen tumans which remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Shahrbanu and Haj Muhammad, 1883
Marriage contract of Shahrbanu, the daughter of Karbalayi Husayn Ustad ʻAli Asghar, and Haj Muhammad, the son of Karbalayi ʻAli Akbar (son of ʻAli Karbalayi Qasim). The mahr includes: pieces of land, water use, two sixths of the house of the groom's mother, clothes to be bought for three tumans, five mans of copper worth three and half tumans, carpets, kilims, and felt worth two-and-a-half tumans, a set of bedding worth two tumans, gold worth one tuman and 5000 [dinars], silver worth three tumans, and ten tumans cash. Asides from the ten tumans cash, the rest remain the groom’s parents’...
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