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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 Fatimah and Sayyid ʻAli, 1852
Marriage contract of Fatimah, the daughter of Rajab (the son of Karbalayi Muhammad Muslim), and Sayyid ʻAli, the son of Mir Habib. The mahr includes: five tumans in cash, a property priced at five tumans, five mans [each man is three kilograms] of copper priced at 25000 [dinars], a quarter of an inherited garden priced at two tumans, some pieces of land close to the river priced at one tuman, a man and half of silk priced at [illegible] tumans, two sets of outfits priced at two tumans that were received, a set of bedding priced at one tuman that was received, a handmade carpet priced at one...
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Marriage contract, 1890
Marriage contract dated February 23, 1890, [in which the bride's and groom's names cannot be deduced as the document is missing some parts] with a mahr of 70 tumans. The marriage was conducted by Mirza ʻAbd al-Javad, their attorney. The mahr includes: two houses for seven tumans, two outfits either handmade or bought for six tumans, a set of bedding for two tumans, carpets and felts for three tumans, one fourth of the water usage of a qanat for fifteen tumans, one fourth of the water usage of another qanat and the springs of Gardanah Shir for ten tumans, two mans [each man equals three...
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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’...