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Wedding dress
Tulle embroidered (naqdah) with gold metal thread.
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Naqdah wedding dress
The top layer is tulle embroidered with gold metal thread. Note the heavy embroidery on the collar. The sleeves end with handmade lace. The under layer is of silk and also heavily embroidered with gold on the chest and at the bottom. The collar, sleeves and hem have bands of naqdah embroidery. Probably from Isfahan.
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Naqdah wedding jacket
Tulle embroidered with gold and silver metal thread and decorated with six-corner stars.
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Marriage contract of Bibi Khatun and Maʻsum Bayg,1804
Marriage contract of Bibi Khatun, known as Nanah Khanum, daughter of Muhammad Taqi, and Maʻsum Bayg, son of Shah Mir Bayg. The Mahr is twenty tumans.
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Marriage contract of Rubab Sultan Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Isma‘il, 1897
Marriage contract of Rubab Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Mirza Fath Allah the accountant, and Aqa Muhammad Isma‘il, the son of Mashhadi Muhammad the cloak-seller. The mahr is eighty tumans and a gold ring worth two tumans.
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Dowry list
Dowry list of items and their prices
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Marriage contract of Nazanin Baygum and Aqa Muhammad Riza, 1910
Marriage contract of Nazanin Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Karbalayi ‘Ali and Aqa Muhammad Riza, the son of Aqa Mashhadi Asad Allah. The mahr is twenty six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars, a Qur‘an (one tuman value), seven misqals of gold (twenty one tumans value), and a portion of land, which was settled to the groom by Khavar Sultan, the daughter of Aqa Mashhadi Muhammad Javad, in exchange for some wheat and one hundred dinars. Aside from the piece of land, the mahr totals forty eight tumans and two and a half qirans [two thousand and five hundred dinars], which remains the...
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Letters of Rubabah Khanum
Letters of Rubabah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahmud Shaykh al-Islam, about the management of her properties in Mahmud Abad and financial and family affairs.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud Khan, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, the daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud Khan, the son of Muhammad Husain, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: four shares of a qanat in Hidayat Aabad village's water, clothing worth 500 tumans, gold [jewelry] worth 200 tumans, a carpet worth 150 tumans, copper dishes made in Yazd worth 50 tumans, silver worth 75 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 25 tumans, and one male slave and one female slave worth 80 tumans.
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List of Manizhah Khanum's household items
Perhaps dowry registry including tableware, kitchenware, copperware, bedding, bath accessories, cushions, cosmetics, clothing, bride and groom outfits, a gold ring, and a gold tie bar
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- ʻIshrat al-Muluk Khanum(1)
- Zahra Khanum (daughter of Sitarah Khanum and Mirza Mas‘ud Shaykh al-Islam)(1)
- Shah Mir Bayg (father of Maʻsum Bayg)(1)
- Sadiqah Khanum (daughter of Sitarah Khanum and Mirza Mas‘ud Shaykh al-Islam)(1)
- Rubabah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Qamar Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Nusrat Ghaffari (Manizhah Siyahpush)(1)
- Munshi Bashi(1)
- Muhammad Taqi (father of Bibi Khatun)(1)
- Mirza ʻAbd Allah Amjad al-Vizarah(1)
- Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami (Raʼis al-Mujahidin)(1)
- Mir Sayyid ʻAli Khan Shaykh al-Islami(1)
- Maʻsum Bayg (son of Shah Mir Bayg)(1)
- Masʻud Masʻudi Khurasani(1)
- Khanum Buzurg (Malik Sultan)(1)
- Haj Mirza Abu Turab Shaykh al-Islam(1)
- Bibi Khatun (daughter of Muhammad Taqi)(1)
- Asiyah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)