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Sale document and settlement between the daughters of Gawhari Khanum, 1908
Sale document and settlement between the children of Gawhari Khanum: five newly built shops in the backside of Mirza Kazim's Saray, close to Shahzadah Husayn and the Karavansaray gate, belong to the five daughters of Aqa Mirza Ismaʻil Farid al-Dawlah, namely, Batul Khanum, Rubab Khanum, Rabiʻah Khanum, Munavvar Khanum, and Maʻsumah Khanum. Each of the daughters owns part of the shops and also they are owners of a mercery, a grocery, and two stands in Hamadan's Chahar Suq. Because some people claimed the shops on backside of Mirza Kazim's Saray and because two daughters are underage...
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Marriage contract of Khavar Khanum Jadid al-Islam with Aqa Hasan Razavi, 1868
Marriage contract of Khavar Khanum Jadid al-Islam (daughter of Sulayman, a Jew) with Aqa Hasan Razavi (son of Iftikhar al-ʻUlamaʼ) on November 4th, 1868. Mahr is 20 tumans, which is due by the groom. The marriage contract is sealed by Hasan Ibn ʻAli Razavi.
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Letter and list of expenses
In this letter, the writer gives an interpretation of a Rumi's poem. On verso there is a document listing some personal expenses: "From the five tumans [that I had] I have paid: two thousand dinars to Abu al-Qasim Bayk, three thousand dinars for Arabian shoes, five hundred dinars for a shirt, five hundred dinars for socks, and two thousand and five hundred dinars for public bath."
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Gawhari Khanum's will, 1923
Gawhari Khanum (daughter of Haj Zu al-Riyasatayn) makes her daughter, Batul Khanum, the executor of her will so that after Gawhari Khanum's death Batul Khanum has to sell the three-sixths of the mills in Murad Bak valley, or buy that share, and spend the money for the expenses in the year of Gawhari Khanum's death. Seven hundred tumans of subtenancy should be paid for fifty years of fasts and prayers. Five hundred tumans should be paid for the expenses of carrying the corpse to the holy cities in Iraq. If this was not possible, the corpse should be carried to Qum and be burried next to the...