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Marriage contract and divorce settlement, 1884 and 1888
One side is the marriage contract of Baygum Jan, daughter of Sayyid Husayn son of Sayyid Nasr Allah, and Muhammad Isma‘il, son of the late Muhammad Riza Da’i. The mahr is sixty tumans, of which the groom paid thirty tumans in women's clothing, rugs, gold, and copper worth five tumans. The other thirty tumans remain the groom's debt. The other side is the divorce settlement of Baygum Jan, daughter of Sayyid Husayn from Gazirgah, and Ismaʻil, son of the late Riza Mushki-baf from Gazirgah. Baygum Jan settled her mahr, alimony, and clothing for twenty-five dirams [dirhams] and two copper coins...
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Marriage contract of Shamsi Baygum and Muhammad Sadiq Darban, 1870
Marriage contract of Shamsi Baygum, daughter of Haj Sayyid Ahmad Khayyat [tailor] Darban, and Muhammad Sadiq Darban [illegible], son of Mulla Muhammad Husayn Kashani. The mahr includes twelve tumans, twelve misqals of rose gold worth twelve tumans, twelve mans of copperware worth twelve tumans, sets of rugs and bedding worth twelve tumans, and fifteen tumans for the purchase of a residential house. The marriage contract also includes the following conditions: in the first fifty years of the marriage, if the husband travels for two whole years without paying alimony to the wife, she can...
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List of possessions, 1911
List of the belongings of the writer and her sister
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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum Saffar Harandi and Ustad ‘Abbas Saffar Harandi, 1891
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan Khanum, daughter of Ustad Muhammad Husayn Saffar Harandi, and Ustad ‘Abbas, son of Ustad Isma‘il Saffar Harandi. The mahr includes three tumans and three thousand dinars. The groom settled with the bride, exchanging three thousand dinars of the mahr and one hundred units of the preceding measure of wheat for twenty misqals [unit of weight] of gold, twenty mans [unit of weight] of copperware, two sets of silk women's clothes, one set of qalamkar women's clothes, one set of qalamkar bedding and one set of chintz bedding from Burujird, a rug, leaning...
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...