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Marriage contract between Gawhar Khanum and Mirza Mahmud, 1887
Marriage contract between Gawhar Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahmud, the son of Muhammad Sadiq, dated December 1st, 1887. The mahr is a Qurʼan worth two tumans, a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan worth 5 tumans, a carpet, a kilim worth 10 tumans, and three sixths of the properties inherited by the bridegroom. A note on the verso reads: "the record of Nanah Gawhar (the mother of our mother, Sakinah Khatun)'s mahr."
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum with Mirza Rahim, 1868
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Mirza Muhammad and Mirza Rahim, the son of Mirza Husayn, on April 11, 1868. The mahr includes 30 tumans cash, room carpets including a rug and felt worth 10 tumans, and a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan. It also includes some properties belonging to the bridegroom's mother, father, and paternal aunt, which were settled with the bridegroom and were then included in mahr. A note on the verso reads: "Aqa Mirza Rahim"
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Marriage contract between Fatimah Khanum with Aqa Muhammad Sadiq, 1871
Marriage contract between Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Sayyid Ahmad, and Aqa Muhammad Sadiq, the son of Mirza Husayn, on July 16, 1871. The mahr includes 18 tumans cash, room's carpets worth 6 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan worth four tumans, part of a building in Shaykh Zayn al-Din neighborhood, and a piece of land. A note on the verso reads as follows: "The bride received the mahr and nothing more is owed to her except half of her share of her husband's inheritance, which will be given to her when her late husband's debts are paid. April 1, 1872." Another note on the...
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Marriage contract between Khvurshid Khanum and Asad Allah, 1876
Marriage contract between Khvurshid Khanum, the daughter of Habib Allah, and Asad Allah, the son of Aqa Jaʻfar, dated December 18, 1876. The mahr includes 30 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering from Isfahan worth 4 tumans, room carpets including a rug and corner felt rugs worth 8 tumans, parts of lands and gardens, some properties in Vadasht, and one and a third walnut trees. On the verso: "after dividing the properties of Aqa Jaʻfar among his children, and calculating the shares of the bridegroom's brothers, one acre from the four acre lands of Aqa Taqi was settled for [fifteen] qafiz of the...
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Marriage agreement of Hishmat and Barat ʻAli, 1883
Marriage agreement of Hishmat, daughter of Mirza son of Sayyid Ibrahim, and Barat ʻAli, son of Mashhadi Sulayman from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, sixty tumans to buy a house for the bride, eighty tumans to buy land for the bride, and seventeen tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, fifteen tumans will be paid for the bridal gift and to buy rugs and two sets of proper women's clothes.
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Marriage agreement of Sadiqah and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, 1891
Marriage agreement of Sadiqah, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mirshafiʻi from Khuzan, and Sayyid Mahmud Mirshafiʻi, son of Mirza ʻAbd Al-Rahim from Khuzan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-sixth of a house located in the Shamsabad neighborhood of Khuzan, one half-acre of land in Shamsabad, fifty tumans to buy a property, and thirty tumans to buy gold and earrings. Additionally, twenty tumans will be paid for the wedding expenses, rugs, and clothes. Later, one-twelfth of the house included in the mahr was changed to two-fifteenths of shares in ʻAli...
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Marriage contract of Aqa Baygum and Karbalayi Muhammad, 1880
Marriage contract of Aqa Baygum, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid Husayn, and Karbalayi Muhammad, the son of Karbalayi Barat‘ali from Zaziran. The mahr is forty tumans. Aqa Baygum has settled twenty eight tumans of her mahr with Karbalayi Muhammad in exchange for the following: one-sixth of a house in Zaziran and a portion of land (total of 7 tumans); a colorful wedding dress (10 tumans); some copperware (2 tumans); a bedding set (2 tumans); a sheep and a goat (2 tumans); carpets and felt rugs (5 tumans); the remaining twelve tumans from the mahr remains the groom's debt. In 1895 and 1896, Aqa...
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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 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‘...
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