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Marriage contract of Rubabah Khanum and Sayyid Hadi, 1917
Marriage contract of Rubabah Khanum [Afzal Khanum], the daughter of [Hajiyah Khanum Muhtadi and] Abu al-Qasim (a merchant from Yazd), and Sayyid Hadi [Mahruz], the son of Sayyid Nasr Allah. The mahr is five hundred and fifty tumans, fifty tumans of which is the Qur’an's value. From this, one hundred tumans was received and the rest remains the groom's debt.
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Umm Salmah's endowment, 1794
Endowment for a garden, known as Bagh Zangi, in Abarqu village, near Yazd, and three sixths of a house and its possessions, by Umm Salmah Khanum, the daughter of Haj Muhammad ʻAli Mirza Khan Yazdi. After the property was rented out, the caretaker was to spend three tumans buying bread and raisins for the poor on the Ghadir feast, another three tumans on giving bread, dates, and raisins to the poor during fast-breaking in the month of Ramadan. Five thousand dinars were set aside in case a stranger were to die without anyone to bury them or supply the shroud. The document also dictates that...
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Sale document of Aqa Muhsin and Bibi Fatimah, 1915
Aqa Mirza Muhsin, the son of the late Aqa Mirza Sayyid Hasan Mudarris, sells the crops from the Jalal Abad farm in Rustaq to Bibi Fatimah, the daughter of Haji ‘Ali Muhammad the merchant from Yazd (son of Ustad ‘Abidini) for seventy five tumans.
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Marriage contract of Hajiyah Khanum and Abu al-Qasim, 1899
Marriage contract of Hajiyah Khanum, the daughter of Muhammad Yazdi, and Abu al-Qasim (a merchant from Yazd), the son of Mulla Hasan Yazdi. The mahr includes one hundred and fifty tumans. Seventy tumans was recieved and the rest remains the groom's debt.
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Settlement of silk between Bibi Nisaʼ Khanum and the wife of Muhammad Javad, 1875
The document reads in part: Bibi Nisaʼ Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Taqi (son of Aqa ʻAli) and wife of Muhammad Baqir Yazdi, settled silk with the daughter of Aqa Muhammad (son of Aqa Husayn, the moneychanger from Yazd) and wife of Aqa Muhammad Javad. December 23, 1875.
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Letter from Pulad, 1903
Letter from Pulad, reporting a list of purchases of household items and the problems in finding the requested items as well as some political news related to the government of Yazd.
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Settlement between Fatimah Khanum and Muhammad Sadiq, 1896
Settlement of between ‘Iliyah ‘Aliyah [Fatimah Khanum], daughter of Mirza Muhammad Vali Sadr al-‘Ulama’, with her son, Mirza Muhammad Sadiq, in which she transfers her share of water of a qanat in the Zarch village of Yazd; the letter has the seal of Fatimah.
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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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Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu and Muhammad ʻAli, 1831
Marriage contract of Umm Kulsum Banu, thedaughter of Rajab ʻAli, and Muhammad ʻAli, the son of Mulla ʻAbd Allah from Yazd. The mahr includes: two-sixths of the shared ownership of a house, worth ten tumans, clothes worth five tumans, two Shah-mans [each of which is six kilograms] of copper worth four tumans, a carpet for covering a room, worth two tumans, a mirror worth five thousand dinars, some gold and silver, a dowry chest worth one tuman, and two thousand dinars.
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Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg and Mirza Masʻud Khan, 1870
Marriage contract of Khanum Buzurg, the daughter of Lutf Allah Mirza, and Mirza Masʻud Khan, the son of Muhammad Husain, with a mahr of 1120 tumans, which includes: four shares of a qanat in Hidayat Aabad village's water, clothing worth 500 tumans, gold [jewelry] worth 200 tumans, a carpet worth 150 tumans, copper dishes made in Yazd worth 50 tumans, silver worth 75 tumans, a Qurʼan worth 25 tumans, and one male slave and one female slave worth 80 tumans.
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