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Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, 1914
Marriage contract of Khadijah Sultan, daughter of Mashhadi ‘Ali, the baker from Isfahan, and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, known as Mukarram, from Habib Abad. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two qirans and ten shahis, and three misqals [unit of weight] of gold. The bride settled two thousand five hundred dinars of her mahr with the groom for a Qurʼan worth one tuman.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum and Sayyid Javad Aqa, 1916
Marriage contract of Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Akhund Mulla Muhammad ʻAli Aqa Iʻtimad al-Zakirin, and Aqa Sayyid Javad Aqa, the son of Haji Sayyid Hasan from Isfahan. The mahr, which includes forty tumans, a gold ring worth five tumans, and a printed volume of the Qur’an priced at four thousand dinars, remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Khavar Sultan Khanum and Barat‘ali, 1909
Marriage contract of Khavar Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Aqa ‘Ali, and Barat‘ali, the son of Aqa Karbalayi Qasim‘ali. The mahr is sixty tumans. The groom settled the following, which his father had settled to him earlier, to the bride: part of the house of residence, parts of agricultural land and their share of water, a set of bedding made in Isfahan (seven tumans), rugs (three tumans), some copperware (one tuman), fabrics and clothing for the wedding (twelve tumans). The mentioned items equal forty eight tumans from the mahr and the remaining twelve tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum and ʻAli Muhammad, 1921
Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum, daughter of Muhammad Taqi Bazzaz [the textile seller], and ʻAli Muhammad, son of ʻAbd al-Karim from Habibabad. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars. The bride settled with the groom, exchanging two thousand five hundred dinars of her mahr for some land and properties in Habibabad village.
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Marriage contract of Javir Sultan and ʻAbd al-Ghafur, 1924
Marriage contract of Javir Sultan, daughter of the late ʻAbd al-Ghaffar from Khuzan, and ʻAbd al-Ghafur, son of Karbalayi Muhammad Darajah. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, one-twelfth of a house, ten tumans to buy land, five tumans for wedding expenses and two sets of women's clothes. The groom's mother, Qamar Sultan, settled the mentioned share of the house with her son for [illegible], at which point it became part of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, 1923
Marriage contract of Kawkab Sultan, daughter of Mulla Ghulam Husayn, son of Muhammad Hasan, and Haj Mulla ‘Abd al-‘Ali, son of Muhammad ‘Ali. The mahr includes twenty-five tumans as an initial gift, twenty-five tumans for women's clothing, twenty-five tumans for rugs, twenty-five tumans for gold, some properties, and a share of water use. The groom settled the properties and the share of water use with the bride for fourteen riyals of the mahr.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan and Asad Allah, 1909
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan, daughter of Mulla Husayn, resident of Runan village, and Asad Allah, son of Ustad ʻAli, resident of the same village. The mahr is twenty-six tumans and two thousand ten shahis, part of a house in the Darb Maydan neighborhood of Runan village, and five misqals [unit of weight] of gold.
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Marriage contract of Sughra and Riza, 1919
Marriage contract of Sughra, the underage daughter of Ghulam ‘Ali son of Haj Isma‘il, and Riza, son of the late ‘Ali son of Rajab from Muhammadabad. The mahr includes ten tumans, one-third of a residential building in Muhammadabad, ten tumans to buy copperware, ten tumans to buy rugs and a chest, three tumans to buy a gold ring, and seven tumans to buy exquisite women's clothes.
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Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum and Latif ‘Ali, 1925
Marriage contract of Sayyidah Baygum, the daughter of the late Qadam‘ali Ibn Haj Aqa Hufi, and Latif ‘Ali, the son of the late Muhammad ‘Ali Ibn Haj Muhammad Varnusfadirani. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand and five hundred dinars that remain the groom's debt; forty tumans for Sayyidah Baygum to purchase of women's clothing, jewelry, fabric, copperware, and carpets; and thirty tumans to Sayyidah Baygum to purchase a house in the neighborhood of her choice. Dated January 23, 1925; on verso: "In 1927, Latif ‘Ali paid forty tumans and seven thousand dinars to Sayyidah...
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Marriage contract of Banu Khanum and Haj Ghulam Riza, 1921
Marriage contract of Banu Khanum, daughter of the late Haj Javad Darvish, and Haj Ghulam Riza, son of the late Darvish Muhammad Husayn. The mahr includes twenty-one tumans, a Qur'an, parts of a building in the Aqa neighborhood, shares of land in the Ab Bariki Plain, and a share of qanat water in the same plain. On the margin: "On 22 January 1926, Darvish Ghulam Riza sold Banu Khanum's share of the land with her permission, and instead, they included another piece of land as her mahr. On 11 Decemeber 1926, Banu Khanum settled her share of the building with Yad Allah, son of the late Darvish...
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