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Marriage contract of Hajar Khanum with Mirza Mahmud, 1905
The marriage contract of Hajar Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Qasim and Mirza Mahmud, the son of Muhammad Jaʻfar, on 20 August 1905. The mahr is 16 tumans, a qalamkar bed covering (made in Isfahan), carpet, rug, and one sixth of a house.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Mirza ‘Ali Asghar, 1898
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid ‘Ali the apothecary, and Aqa Mirza ‘Ali Asghar, the son of Haji Mirza Mahmud the merchant from Isfahan. The mahr is one hundred and ten tumans. According to a note on the margin, Fatimah Sultan Khanum is the granddaughter of Aqa Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr al-Hukama’, the personal physician of Muzaffar al-Din Shah.
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Settlement between Aqa Baygum and her children, 1904
Settlement between Aqa Baygum, daughter of Haj Muhammad Javad from Isfahan and wife of Haj Muhammad Sadiq from Dastjird, and her two sons, Muhammad Hadi Arbab and Muhammad Shafi‘, exchanging four-and-one-half acres of a property in Dastjird, which she inherited from her son, Hasan ‘Ali, for one hundred dinars. Aqa Baygum also settles her mahr with the mentioned sons for ten misqals [unit of weight] of crystal candy. They agree that if Aqa Baygum passes away, the mahr should be spent on: the Fatihah, ten years of fasting and prayer, the Imam's share being given to Shaykh Ahmad, tithing to...
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Marriage contract between Ummah Khanum and Muhammad Karim, 1897
Marriage contract between Ummah Khanum, the daughter of Habib Allah, with Muhammad Karim, son of Mirza Rahim, on January 28, 1897. The mahr is a Qurʼan worth 2 tumans, fifteen tumans cash, a qalamkar bed covering made in Isfahan worth 2 tumans and five thousand dinars, a carpet kilim and a pair of felt rugs worth five tumans, and one sixth of the houses that belong to the bridegroom's father. Note: part of the aforementioned properties were inherited by the bridegroom from his late mother and the rest was transferred to him from his father. The note on the verso reads: "a record of the mahr...
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Marriage contract of Ummi Khanum and Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, 1901
Marriage contract of Ummi Khanum, the daughter of Mir Muhammad Riza, and Akhund Mulla Muhammad ‘Ali, the son of Akhund Mulla Muhammad Isma‘il; the mahr includes: a Qur’an worth one tuman; fifteen tumans; one thousand dinars; five misqals [each misqal is 4.25 grams] of rose gold; carpets to cover a room, including two runners, felt, and a small carpet worth ten tumans; two and a half mans (shah) [each man (shah) is 6 kilograms] of copperware worth of six tumans and five thousand dinars; a set of qalamkar beddings from Isfahan worth of four tumans; one-sixth of a house in Shahrak neighborhood...
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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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Booklet of documents
Documents related to women are the following: seq. 23: "I, Haj ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, have received all the jewelry of my deceased wife, Nabat Khanum, which was left with the wife of Haji Vakil al-Dawlah for safekeeping, plus three documents that were not listed. December 29, 1886"; seq. 27: a few years ago, the deceased Nabat Khanum from Tehran, the wife of the deceased ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, had left 1000 tumans with Haji Aqa Muhammad Hasan Vakil al-Dawlah, representative of the government of the United Kingdom, who claims on the...
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Settlement between the inheritors of Haj Husayn Urnadi and Haj Sayf al-Dawlah, 1905
Settlement of the inheritors of the late Haj Husayn Urnadi with Haj Sayf al-Dawlah, exchanging five different properties for five thousand tumans, which was paid in cash. The inheritors include: his oldest son, Muhammad Hasan, his daughters, Karbalayi Javahir, Karbalayi Sahib, Kishvar, Khadijah, Farkhundah, and Rubabah (with their husbands' permission), his permanent wives, Karbalayi Shahr Banu, Karbalayi Mihr Banu, Sahib Sultan, and Shaykh Ziya’ al-Din on behalf of his two underaged children.
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