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Two copies of the marriage contract of Zubaydah Baygum and Mir Sayyid Aqa, 1919
Marriage contract of Zubaydah Baygum (known as Iran), daughter of Aqa Mirza Sayyid Mahmud Khan Mu‘tasam al-Dawlah, and Mir Sayyid Aqa, son of Haji Sayyid Husayn; the mahr is one thousand tumans, of which the groom paid half by transferring one-sixth of his paternal house to the bride. The rest of the mahr remains the groom’s debt. There are differences in the two copies.
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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 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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Marriage contract of Gul Andam and Muhammad Sharif, 1874
Marriage contract of Gul Andam, daughter of the late Karbalayi ‘Abdul Khan, and Muhammad Sharif Bayg, son of the late Karbalayi Rustam (from Jalilabad); the mahr is twenty tumans, one thousand dinars, and some property
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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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Marriage contract of Mah Taban and Mirza Ismaʻil, 1888
Marriage contract of Mah Taban, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mustawfi, and Mirza Ismaʻil the accountant, son of Muʻtamad al-Sultan Mirza Ahmad Mustawfi. The mahr includes four hundred tumans in cash, a Qur'an worth thirty tumans, one male slave and one female slave worth seventy tumans, one-sixth of a residential building and a property in Tafrish, and a qanat and a creek in Tasuj. The first three items remain the groom's debt. The groom's father transferred the ownership of the qanat and the creek to the bride.
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Marriage contract of Khvurshid Khanum and Muhammad Sharif, 1914
Marriage contract of Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Ja‘far Quli Bayg, and Muhammad Sharif, son of the late Karbalayi Rustam (from Jalilabad); the mahr includes some parts of Qarakul farm and Dusaran village. Haji Muhammad Baqir represented Khvurshid Khanum.
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Marriage contract of Akhtar al-Muluk and Jalal Khan, 1924
Marriage contract of Akhtar al-Muluk Khanum, daughter of Mirza Ibrahim Khan Munshi Bashi, and Jalal Khan (treasurer), son of ‘Abd Allah Khan Tavallali. The mahr includes two thousand tumans and a copy of a Qur’an worth one hundred tumans.
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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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- Mir Sayyid Mahmud Mu‘tasam al-Dawlah(2)
- ‘Iffat Khanum (daughter of Mir Sayyid Mahmud Mu‘tasam al-Dawlah)(1)
- Zubaydah Baygum(1)
- Mirza ‘Aliriza Majma‘ al-Hikmatayn(1)
- Mir Sayyid Aqa(1)
- Mah Taban (Saʻadat al-Saltanah)(1)
- Jalal Khan Tavallali(1)
- Ismaʻil Bahrami (ʻImad al-Mamalik)(1)
- Akhtar al-Muluk (daughter of Mirza Ibrahim)(1)
- Ahmad ʻImad al-Mamalik(1)