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Marriage contract of Malik Sultan Khanum and Mahdi Quli Khan, 1819
Marriage contract of Malik Sultan Khanum (Shirin Jan Khanum), daughter of Fath‘ali Shah, and Mahdi Quli Khan, son of Husayn Khan Sardar Qazvini. The sidaq (mahr) is 1500 tumans in cash, gold, silver, jewelry, several properties, three male slaves, and three female slaves.
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Settlement of Khadijah Sultan Baygum and Raziyah Sultan Baygum with Shaykh Abu Turab, 1826
Properties, located at Ramjard in Fars, had been sold to Shaykh Abu Turab, the son of Shaykh Mufid, according to a previous contract. Now Mirza Abu al-Qasim Mir’ab, son of Mirza Muhammad, on behalf of Khadijah Sultan Baygum and Raziyah Sultan Baygum (Bibi Sahib), the daughters of Mirza Ja‘far (the grandfather of the author of this document), claims that some of these properties are their share of inheritance. Thus, a settlement is signed between Mirza Abu al-Qasim, on behalf of Khadijah Sultan Baygum and Raziyah Sultan Baygum, and Shaykh Abu Turab for sixty tumans compensation.
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Marriage contract of Zahra Khanum and Muhammad Karim
Marriage contract of Zahra Khanum, daughter of Muhammad Qasim Zabit al-Shani, and Muhammad Karim, son of Haydar ‘Ali Khan, with a mahr of one hundred tumans, partially exchanged for full ownership of a property located in Takht Qarchah of Isfahan, 1805.
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun and Haydar, 1821
Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun, daughter of Najaf Afshar, and Haydar, son of Saʻid Fashandi, with a mahr of 20 tumans and one sixth of a house in Fashand.
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Marriage contract between Shahrbanu and Mirza Husayn, 1833
Marriage contract between Shahrbanu, the daughter of Aqa Ismaʻil, and Mirza Husayn, the son of Haj Sadiq, dated May 8, 1833. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, a room's carpets, including rugs and felt rugs worth 34 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering worth 4 tumans, and parts of some properties. On the verso: "Mirza Rahim, Muhammad Baqir, and their sister, Khadijah Khanum, who are the children of Mirza Husayn, settled with full consent whatever rights they had to their mother's mahr. June 28, 1875. [Shahrbanu Khanum] settled with her three children, four and half sixths of the buildings in the...
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Marriage contract of Gawhar Sultan Baygum and Mirza Fulad, 1828
Marriage contract of Gawhar Sultan Baygum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad Taqi, and Mirza Fulad, the son of Mirza Khvajah Muhammad Darmiyani, with a mahr of 150 tumans, which includes: water usage, gold and jewelry, some properties, part of a shop, carpets for covering two rooms. On verso, the mother of Mirza Ghulamriza has stated that she has given her son her properties and lands.
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Sale of Musa's inheritance, 1826
Zulaykha Khanum, Musa’s wife, Maryam Khanum, Musa’s daughter, and Safiyah and Imam‘ali, Musa's underage children, represented by some of the people of the village — whose names appear on the margin -- sell their shares of the inherited houses in ‘Uryandibi [Ayrandibi] to Karbalayi Hasanquli and Karbalayi Bakhsh‘ali, the sons of ‘Abbas, for three tumans and fifteen thousand dinars. Of the three tumans, Maryam gets one tuman and two tumans go to the underage children.
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Marriage contract of Kulsum Khanum and Aqa Muhammad Ibrahim, 1820
Marriage contract of Kulsum Khanum, the daughter of Abu al-Qasim, and Aqa Muhammad Ibrahim, the son of Muhammad Hadi Khvurasgani; the mahr includes: twelve tumans of Tabrizi currency used in trade conducted in Isfahan, one-sixth of a residential building worth three tumans, some crimson gold, five mans [unit of weight] of copperware, and one cow worth two tumans. The groom must pay the above mahr to the bride upon her request, if he can afford it.
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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 contract of Bibi Kuchak and Muhammad Baqir, 1826
Marriage contract of Bibi Kuchak, the daughter of Ustad Husayn Fakhkhar from Yazd, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Hasan (son of Zu al-Fiqar Naqi) with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: 10 shares of the shared ownership of a house (the ownership of which was divided into 80 shares), an outfit worth 10 tumans, two-and-a-half Shah-mans [each is six kilograms] of copper worth five tumans, gold, and a carpet for covering a room, worth five tumans. The groom's mother contributed the gold and the house, his father contributed the carpet, and the rest remain the groom's debt.
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