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Marriage contract of Taj Mah Sultan and Muhammad Riza, 1895
Marriage contract of Taj Mah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi Muhammad Javad, and Muhammad Riza, son of Muhammad Hasan. The mahr is thirty tumans, a part of a house in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Isfahan, and two misqals [unit of weight] of golden jewelry.
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Marriage agreement of Sakinah Khani and Fath Allah Khani, 1889
Marriage agreement of Sakinah Khani from Khuzan, daughter of ʻAbbas son of ʻAbd al-Ghaffar, and Fath Allah Khani from Khuzan, son of the late Muhammad Riza. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a house located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, some land, and fifteen tumans for gold and earrings. Additionally, fifteen tumans will be paid for the bridal gift and two sets of proper women's clothes.
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Marriage agreement of Fatimah and Ahmad, 1883
Marriage agreement of Fatimah, daughter of Ibrahim son of Sadiq from Khuzan, and Ahmad, son of Karbalayi Haydar son of Sadiq from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a house in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, a share of water in Andan village, land in Andan village, and ten tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, ten tumans will be paid for the bridal gift and two sets of proper women's clothes. The groom's father settled the share of the house mentioned, and the groom's mother, Husni Jan, settled the shares of water...
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Marriage agreement of Hishmat and Barat ʻAli, 1883
Marriage agreement of Hishmat, daughter of Mirza son of Sayyid Ibrahim, and Barat ʻAli, son of Mashhadi Sulayman from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, sixty tumans to buy a house for the bride, eighty tumans to buy land for the bride, and seventeen tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, fifteen tumans will be paid for the bridal gift and to buy rugs and two sets of proper women's clothes.
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Marriage agreement of Sadiqah and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, 1891
Marriage agreement of Sadiqah, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mirshafiʻi from Khuzan, and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, son of Mirza ʻAbd Al-Rahim from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-sixth of a house located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, one half-acre of land in Shamsabad, fifty tumans to buy a property, and thirty tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, twenty tumans will be paid for the wedding expenses, rugs, and clothes. Later, one-twelfth of the house included in the mahr was changed to two-fifteenths of shares in ʻAli...
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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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Three settlements of Haj Habib Allah, 1882, 1883, and 1884
The first document, dated 1882, is a copy of the settlement between Haj Habib Allah, son of the late Haj Mirza ʻAbd Allah, and his sister, Mahi Khanum, transferring the ownership of Mahi Khanum's belongings, including silverware, furniture and goods, land and housing, clothes and fabric, etc. in exchange for a pair of gold bracelets, a knife, and fourteen shahis. The second settlement, dated 1883, is between Haj Habib Allah and his two underaged sons, Muhammad Husayn and Murtaza Quli, transferring the ownership of what he inherited from his sister, Mahi Khanum, in exchange for a knife and...
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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‘...
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Settlement between Qamar Sultan and Mashhadi Haji Muhammad, 1886
Settlement between Qamar Sultan, wife of Muhammad Hasan ‘Alaqah-band [the silk maker] from Shiraz, and Mashhadi Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band from Shiraz, son of Haji Muhammad Karim (Qamar Sultan's father), over Qamar Sultan's mahr, including a Qurʼan worth one tuman, fifty tumans, seven misqals [unit of weight] of gold, one charik [unit of weight] raw green silk, one-third of a house located in Sarbagh neighborhood of Shiraz, for fifty tumans, one man [unit of weight] of Russian hard white sugar, and two thousand tumans as the cost of detriments. Dated September 20, 1886