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Marriage contract of Khadijah and Kazim from Isfarjan, 1830
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of ʻAli Naqi from Isfarjan, and Kazim from Isfarjan. The mahr includes three tumans, four misqals [unit of weight] of golden jewelry, copperware, a set of local women’s clothes and a set of European women's clothes, chintz bedding from Isfahan, a rug, one colorful kilim, a pair of felt rugs, and for the purchase price of some properties.
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Marriage contract of Baygum Agha and Mustafa, 1906
Marriage contract of Baygum Agha, daughter of Muhammad Quli Khan, a resident of Zifrah Linjan, and Mustafa, son of Haj ‘Ali Akbar, a resident of Darichah. The mahr is one hundred tumans. The groom additionally settled with the bride, exchanging a Qurʼan, four sets of women cloths, a pair of rugs suitable for the living room, two sets of Isfahan qalamkar beddings, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, ten mans [unit of weight] of copperware, one-third of the house belonging to the groom's father, and some land for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of wheat. Ninety tumans of...
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Marriage contract of Khadijah and Darvish Husayn
Marriage contract of Khadijah, daughter of Ustad Barat ‘Ali, and Darvish Husayn, son of Darvish Hashim. The mahr includes nine tumans, some rose gold, some copperware, silk and chintz clothes, bedding from Isfahan, a colorful kilim, a residential building in the Aqa neighborhood, and some properties.
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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 Marziyah Baygum and Mir Nasr Abu Talib, 1911
Marriage contract of Marziyah Baygum, daughter of ‘Abd al-Javad the preacher from ّUpper Banuyah, and Mir Nasr Abu Talib, son of Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali. The mahr is ten tumans in cash, ten tumans to buy rose gold, ten tumans to buy clothes, some properties in Banuyah, and five tumans for acquiring a Qurʼan.
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Marriage contract of Sughra Baygum and Karbalayi Ghulam Riza, 1897
Marriage contract of Sughra Baygum, daughter of Sayyid Murtaza, and Karbalayi Ghulam Riza, son of the late Darvish Husayn resident of Qumshah village. The mahr includes thirty-seven tumans and the price of: goldware, copperware, clothes, rugs, bedding, and one-twelfth of a building in Qumshah village. On the back: "On May 10, 1926, Sughra Baygum received a set of items, including a donkey, six sheep, and beddings, for thirty-seven tumans of her mahr and ten tumans of her late husband's debt to her. On December 29, 1926, Sughra Baygum settled with Darvish Yad Allah, son of the late Darvish...
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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 Ruqiyah Sultan and Musa
Marriage contract of Ruqiyah Sultan, daughter of Isma‘il Khan, and Musa, son of Mahdi Quli. The mahr is fifty tumans and a list of items worth fifty tumans including a rug, a ewer and basin, bedding, a samovar, and a tray with all its dishes.
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Marriage contract of Sayyidah Layla and Ramazan ‘Ali, 1907
Marriage contract of Sayyidah Layla, daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid Husayn, and Ramazan ‘Ali, son of Ma‘sum. The mahr is one hundred and twenty-eight tumans for the bridal gift, gold coins, gold earrings, a gold talisman [illegible], two [illegible] gold rings, a gold necklace, and some women's clothes. The rest of the mahr remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract of Zahra and Muhammad Husayn, 1831
Marriage contract of Zahra, daughter of Muhammad Husayn, and Muhammad Husayn, son of the late ʻAli Quli Bayg known as Aqa Baba. The mahr is seventy tumans. The bride settled thirty-five tumans of her mahr with the groom in exchange for one-twelfth of a house, located at Baghkaran neighborhood of Isfahan, and fifteen misqals [unit of weight] of gold. In a note on the margin, dated 27 November 1831, the wife has denied transferring her mahr to the late Ghulam Husayn and claims her mahr.
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