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Marriage contract of Maʻsumah Khanum and Abu Talib, 1849
Marriage contract of Maʻsumah Khanum, daughter of Haj ʻAliyar resident of Tehran [illegible] Isfahan, and Abu Talib, son of ʻAli Riza. The mahr is twenty two tumans and five thousand dinars. Following this contract, the groom's father settled with the groom over one-sixth of a house located at [illegible] for ten [illegible] coins and ten loads of wheat. Then the groom settled with the bride over the mentioned part of property for eight tumans of the mahr. On the back of the document: "On December 23, 1860, the wife settled with Mulla Faridun, son of Aqa Vafadar, over the same one-sixth of...
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Fatimah Baygum and Muhammad Baqir, 1897
Marriage and divorce contracts of Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Sayyid Ismaʻil Kulah-mal, and Muhammad Baqir, son of Ustad Husayn. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans and fifty shahis, one twenty-fourth of a house in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Isfahan, and a Qurʼan worth one tuman. On June 18, 1905, Fatimah Baygum settled her mahr, except the part of the mentioned property, with her husband for one hundred dinars in order to get a divorce. Then, on August 30, 1905, they remarried and the husband settled the ten tumans he owed to the wife for one hundred dinars and some wheat. The mahr,...
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Marriage contract of Baygum Agha and Mustafa, 1906
Marriage contract of Baygum Agha, daughter of Muhammad Quli Khan, a resident of Zifrah Linjan, and Mustafa, son of Haj ‘Ali Akbar, a resident of Darichah. The mahr is one hundred tumans. The groom additionally settled with the bride, exchanging a Qurʼan, four sets of women cloths, a pair of rugs suitable for the living room, two sets of Isfahan qalamkar beddings, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, ten mans [unit of weight] of copperware, one-third of the house belonging to the groom's father, and some land for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of wheat. Ninety tumans of...
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Marriage contract of Fatimah and Ghulamriza, 1902
Marriage contract of Fatimah, known as Khanum Jan, the daughter of Husayn ‘Ali Akbar Paykani, and Ghulamriza, the son of ‘Ali ‘Abdul; the mahr includes: twelve tumans, three mans of copperware, two mans of Arabian kilim, a set of Isfahani chintz bedding, two sets of women's outfits, one made of silk and the other of Isfahani chintz, and the price of a building originally valued at two tumans, and the price of a building originally valued at two tumans, but which both parties agreed was worth three tumans of the original mahr and twenty-five Tasujs [unit of weight] of wheat.
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Haj ‘Ali, 1879
Marriage contract of Sughra, daughter of Haj Ghulam Riza Runani, and Haj ‘Ali, son of ‘Ali ‘Askar from Runan. The mahr includes eighteen tumans, one-twelfth of a residential building in the Tahunah region of Runan village, and some land. The mahr remains groom's debt. On the margin: "On February 3, 1898, Sughra Khanum settled some of the land with Haj ‘Ali in exchange for ten loads of wheat and some other land."
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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‘...