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Stipends, 1892
The document reads: "the stipends: [of] this year [from] Anis al-Dawlah, based on a receipt kept by Mirza Buzurg, who keeps the records: eight tumans in cash and six kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods; [from] Anis al-Dawlah, the servant of the holy shrine: four tumans in cash and three kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods; [from] Sharaf al-Saltanah, the servant of the holy shrine, who is the wife of Haji Mirza ʻAbd al-Rahim: four tumans in cash and three kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods."
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Stipends, 1891
The document reads: "Stipends: [of] this year [from] Anis al-Dawlah, based on a receipt kept by Mirza Buzurg, who keeps the records: eight tumans in cash and six kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods; [from] Anis al-Dawlah, the servant of the holy shrine: four tumans in cash and three kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods; [from] Sharaf al-Saltanah, the servant of the holy shrine, who is the wife of Haji Mirza ʻAbd al-Rahim: four tumans in cash and three kharvars [one kharvar is 100 mans, roughly 300 kilograms] of goods."
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Power of attorney to divorce Rajab and Khayr al-Nisaʼ, 1856
Rajab, the son of Allah Virdi Afshar, gives the power of attorney to divorce his permanent, consummated wife, Khayr al-Nisaʼ, the daughter of Ustad Ismaʻil the mason, to Mulla Jaʻfar, with the condition that she forgo her mahr and pay him an additional 10 rials. The wife forgoes her mahr, in addition, gives one tuman [10 rials] to her husband.
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Marriage contract of Zinat Baygum and Mirza Muhammad Javad, 1847
Marriage contract of Zinat Baygum, the daughter of Mirza Hasan, and Mirza Muhammad Javad, the son of Muhammad Taqi Shaykh al-Islam, with a mahr of 200 tumans, which includes a house and some properties plus 20 tumans cash for [buying] the essentials.
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Marriage contract of Yalda known as Fatimah and Lavan Khan Sarhaddi, 1919
Marriage contract of Yalda, known as Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad ʻAbbas, and Lavan Khan Sarhaddi, with a mahr of 30 tumans. A person named ʻAbd al-Husayn writes to Mulla Muhammad that because Yalda was from the latter's region (Sistan), he would send the marriage contract to him so that he could write two copies of it, keeping one and sending the other one back to himself sealed.
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Stipend of Aqa Mulla Hasan's wife, 1896
Mirza Muhammad the treasurer received 2000 dinars, 10 shahis, and five mans [each man is three kilograms] of bread, which he gave to the wife of Aqa Mulla Hasan.
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Letter, 1903
The letter is about Qaysar Khan, an Afghan with British citizenship, who the writer claims has financial conflicts with some locals, such as Muhammad Husayn. ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas has agreed to give his daughter to Qaysar Khan in marriage. He gave eighty tumans and some clothes to ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas and his daughter, and has lived with [Ustad ʻAli's] daughter in his house for a month. The writer pleads with the receipient of the letter, claiming that action must be taken to punish Ustad ʻAli, who had gone to his house [in order to make the marriage legal], and he had told him that the...
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Fakhri's stipend, 1887-1888
The document reads "Haji Mulla Muhammad ʻAli the treasurer received 5000 dinars and 20 mans [each man is three kilograms] of bread [and] gave them to me, Fakhri, the daughter of Aqa Mir Muhammad from Qandahar, for the month of Rabiʻ al-Sani 1305 AH [17 December 1887 to 14 January 1888]."
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Donating money to Fatimah Bibi, 1894
The document reads: "One tuman and five thousand dinars from Nizam al-Dawlah's endowment were donated to Fatimah Bibi, a pilgrim woman, on the order of Haji Shaykh Hasan."
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Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun and Haydar, 1821
Marriage contract of Sakinah Khatun, daughter of Najaf Afshar, and Haydar, son of Saʻid Fashandi, with a mahr of 20 tumans and one sixth of a house in Fashand.