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Marriage contract between Fatimah Khanum and Aqa ʻAli Asghar, 1896
A marriage contract between Fatimah Khanum, daughter of Haji ʻAli (a Tabrizi merchant originally from Hamadan) and Aqa ʻAli Asghar, son of Haji Ibrahim on 23 May 1896. The mahr is 10 tumans and a Qurʼan.
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Marriage contract of Sughra Khanum with Aqa Fazl Allah, 1887
The marriage contract of Sughra Khanum, the daughter of Suhrab Khan, and Aqa Fazl Allah, the son of Aqa Mirza Habib Allah Shams al-Shariʻah on 21 May 1887. The mahr includes a Qurʼan, 25 tumans, 10 acres of a river, 5 acres of a land in Gulpaygan, 4 acres in a sahara, 2 acres of a garden, and one sixth of a house. In 1921, Fazl Allah settled all of his properties with Hajiyah Bibi Khanum. When Bibi Khanum abrogated this transaction due to her Hajj pilgrimage, Fazl Allah settles for four and a half-sixth of his building with Bibi Hajiyah.
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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 between Ummah Khanum and Muhammad Karim, 1897
Marriage contract between Ummah Khanum, the daughter of Habib Allah, with Muhammad Karim, son of Mirza Rahim, on January 28, 1897. The mahr is a Qurʼan worth 2 tumans, fifteen tumans cash, a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan worth 2 tumans and five thousand dinars, a carpet kilim and a pair of felt rugs worth five tumans, and one sixth of the houses that belong to the bridegroom's father. Note: part of the aforementioned properties were inherited by the bridegroom from his late mother and the rest was transferred to him from his father. The note on the verso reads: "a record of the mahr...