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Marriage contract of Khadijah and ‘Abd al-Khaliq, 1827
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of Muhammad Husayn, and ‘Abd al-Khaliq, son of Muhammad Hadi. The mahr is fifty tumans. The groom settled ten tumans of the mahr with the bride in exchange for one-twelfth of a residential building in Sultan Sanjar neighborhood. The rest of the mahr remains the groom's debt. The groom additionally promised to buy ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold and ten mans [unit of weight] of copperware for the bride without asking anything in return.
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Marriage agreement of Sakinah Aqayi and Muhammad, 1940
Marriage agreement of Sakinah Aqayi, daughter of Karim son of Lutfʻali from Khuzan, and Muhammad, son of ʻAbbas ʻAli resident of Huristan village. The mahr is twenty-six tumans, a share of a house in Huristan, forty tumans to buy land for the bride, ten tumans to buy gold and earrings, and one-and-a-half mans of copperware. Additionally, six tumans will be paid for [wedding] expenses, the bridal gift, a set of proper women's clothes, and one-and-a-half mans [unit of weight] of cotton wool for bedding.
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Power of attorney to collect mother's possessions, 1914
Copy of power of attorney given by Mirza Baygum and Khanum Ziya’, daughters of Haj Mirza Yusuf Halabi-furush [tin seller], to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin in order to get the house, goldware, silverware, copperware, and mahr of their deceased mother, Mah Sultan (daughter of the late Haj Murtaza), from their father, Haj Mirza Yusuf
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Will of Sayyid Taqi
Four wills belonging to Sayyid Taqi the leather seller. In the second document, dated May 17,1893, he transferred his property to his wife, Sultan Khanum. In the third and fourth document, he has chosen Sayyid Muhammad Valadabadi as the executor of his will and guardian of his minor children.
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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 contract of Jan Jan Khanum and Muhammad Karim, 1842 or 1843
Marriage contract of Jan Jan Khanum, daughter of Aqa Muhammad from Karvan village, and Muhammad Karim, son of Muhammad ‘Ali Tihrani Karvan. The mahr is three hundred tumans. The groom settled the following items in exchange for two hundred and sixty tumans of the mahr: a portion of land and part of a garden/orchard in Hurmanan village, part of a garden/orchard in Divun Farm, some qanats and part of a residential house in Hurmanan village, and a house, along with its stable and garden. The groom also promised if the marriage lasted and the bride obeyed him, he would buy the following items...
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Baygum and Mulla Husayn ʻAli, 1843
Marriage contract of Sakinah Baygum, daughter of Mirza Ghiyas al-Din, and Mulla Husayn ʻAli, son of Muhammad ʻAli Yazdi. The mahr includes half of a house inside [illegible], a garden in ʻIzzabad, two acres of land in the same village, four mans [unit of weight] of copper worth ten tumans, a pair of rugs worth ten tumans, ten tumans for clothes, a chest worth fifteen thousand dinars, a chador, a set of bathing gowns, an inlaid mirror, and gold-made jewelry worth three tumans and five thousand dinars.
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Settlement of Baygum Jan Khanum with her sons, 1873
Prior to this, Baygum Jan Khanum had settled with her two sons, Haji Sayyid Muhammad and Haji Sayyid Abu al-Qasim, over her share of inheritance from her late husband, Haji Mir Kazim, and also over her share of inheritance from Haji Mir Hasan. Now, after some disputes, another settlement is made between them and the sons are required to financially support Baygum Jan Khanum as long as she lives, take her on a pilgrimage to Karbala’ and Mashhad, and pay for her funeral and burial costs. Moreover, she can take hold of her household furnishings, including bedding, carpets, kitchenware, and...
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Financial and legal documents
Financial and legal documents, including a number of sale agreements, settlements, the dowry list of Rubabah Khanum, and documents concerning the inheritance of Mirza Abu al-Qasim Yazdi.
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Will of Haj Hamzah, 1891
Will of Haj Hamzah Aqa Tajir (merchant) from Tabriz, resident of Najaf, in which he gives one hundred tumans to his wife (daughter of Haj Shaykh Muhammad) for her mahr, three hundred tumans for purchasing a house for her, and allows her to keeps all her belongings including clothing, carpets, and household furnishings. He also determines one-third of his inheritance and allocates money to be spent for his funeral and religious duties including ablution, the funeral, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and charity. Haj Hamzah Aqa has appointed Mirza Aqa Sadiq as the executor of his will in Najaf...
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- Shahzadah Muluk Kaykhusravi Muqaddam (Sulaymani)(2)
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- ‘Ali Quli Bayg (Khatibi Collection)(1)
- Vakil al-Saltanah(1)
- Sayyid Taqi (son of Mir Husayn)(1)
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- Sadiqah Khanum (Mirbaghdadabadi collection)(1)
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- Ruqiyah Baygum (daughter of Sayyid Taqi)(1)
- Rubabah Khanum (Mirbaghdadabadi Collection)(1)
- Muʼaddab al-Mamalik(1)
- Muhammad Salih Tabatabaʼi(1)
- Mirza Shafi‘ (husband of Husni Baygum Khanum)(1)
- Mir Husayn (Khatibi Collection)(1)
- Malih Khanum Bihjat al-Saltanah(1)
- Khanum Sultan Khanum (daughter of ‘Aliquli Bayg)(1)
- Khan Baba Khan(1)
- Haji Sayyid ‘Ali Asghar(1)
- Haj Sayyid Mirza Tihrani(1)
- Fatimah Baygum Khanum (daughter of Sayyid Taqi)(1)
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