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Marriage contract between Hajiyah Jahan Sultan Khanum and Haji Muhammad Baqir, 1908
Marriage contract between Hajiyah Jahan Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Haji Muhammad Husayn, the broker from Isfahan, and Haji Muhammad Baqir, the son of Aqa Muhammad Taqi Isfahani, dated August 25, 1908. The mahr is 300 tumans, including a Qurʼan, some gold, and part of a house.
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Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa and Mulla Lutf Allah, 1928
Marriage contract of Sharaf Aqa, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid Mahdi, and Mulla Lutf Allah, the son of Mulla Aqa Mirza. The mahr is twenty six tumans, a Qur’an (valued at one tuman), two-sixths of their house of residence, a portion of land, a set of bedding from Isfahan, some copperware from Isfahan, a rug, and a piece of clothing for a wedding. The above items, except the Qur’an and the money, amount to a total of forty five tumans, which remains the groom's debt. The note on the margin says: the house, the land, the copperware, and the rug were settled for thirty five tumans and the rest...
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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 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 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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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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Marriage contract of Sughra Khanum with Aqa Fazl Allah, 1887
The marriage contract of Sughra Khanum, the daughter of Suhrab Khan, and Aqa Fazl Allah, the son of Aqa Mirza Habib Allah Shams al-Shariʻah on 21 May 1887. The mahr includes a Qurʼan, 25 tumans, 10 acres of a river, 5 acres of a land in Gulpaygan, 4 acres in a sahara, 2 acres of a garden, and one sixth of a house. In 1921, Fazl Allah settled all of his properties with Hajiyah Bibi Khanum. When Bibi Khanum abrogated this transaction due to her Hajj pilgrimage, Fazl Allah settles for four and a half-sixth of his building with Bibi Hajiyah.
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Miscellaneous writings, 1891-1985
Miscellaneous writings, including: a page with a list of books and some notes with "93" on the verso; a list of books by the Bab and Subh-i Azal; a list of photographic glass plates and the numbers of Babis and Baha’is killed between 1849-1973; a list of endowed books and prayers for different occasions; a holiday greeting; a fragment of a testimonial about Qamar Taj Dawlatabadi and her companions' travels to Cyprus and a receipt of a collection of items belonging to Subh-i Azal from 'Aliyah Khanum; a childbirth greeting and miscellaneous writings of Qamar Taj Dawlatabadi on the verso;...
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