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Settlement between Shaykh al-Islam siblings
Settlement bears the seal of Aqa Mirza Muhammad Taqi Shaykh al-Islam.
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Inheritance and property sale settlement
Settlement and property sale document bearing the seal of Aqa Mir Muhammad Baqir, father of Aqa Mir Muhammad Taqi Shaykh al-Islam.
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Property sale, 1794
Property sale from Muhammad Husayn to Aqa Kazim's children and consent of Aqa Kazim's wife
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Woman with a cat
Oil on canvas
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Sale of property, 1793
Ujaq Quli, the son of Muhammad Riza Nahandi Mavaziʻkhan (on behalf of himself and with power of attorney from his two brothers, Asad Allah and Dashtamur), Gharib Shah Karbalayi Shah Nazar (son of Kurd ʻAli and the guardian of Muhammad Riza's sons, Faraj Allah and Aqa Sayyid), and Badr al-Nisa’ (Muhammad Riza's wife, on behalf of herself and her two daughters, Gul Pari and Gawhar), transfer a farm known as Basit in the village of Nahand to Mirza Abu Muhammad the Sheriff of Tabriz (son of Mirza Muhammad Zaman) in exchange for twenty tumans. Later, on verso, Mirza Abu Muhammad has stated that...
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Inlaid box
A wedding gift to Farangis Khanum (daughter of Humayun Kiyaniyan and Kaykhusraw Kiyaniyan); the inscription on the lid reads: "Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta [Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds]," dated 1210 [1795 or 1796]
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Umm Salmah's endowment, 1794
Endowment for a garden, known as Bagh Zangi, in Abarqu village, near Yazd, and three sixths of a house and its possessions, by Umm Salmah Khanum, the daughter of Haj Muhammad ʻAli Mirza Khan Yazdi. After the property was rented out, the caretaker was to spend three tumans buying bread and raisins for the poor on the Ghadir feast, another three tumans on giving bread, dates, and raisins to the poor during fast-breaking in the month of Ramadan. Five thousand dinars were set aside in case a stranger were to die without anyone to bury them or supply the shroud. The document also dictates that...
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Marriage contract of Rahimah and Mulla Muhammad Baqir, 1786
Marriage contract of Rahimah, the daughter of Haj Muhammad, and Mulla Muhammad Baqir, the son of Haj Mulla ʻAli Asghar. The mahr is 60 tumans, which includes: gold, silver, clothes, carpets, copper, cast iron, sheep, house, farms, and water use rights.
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Settlement between Fatimah Khanum and Aqa Muhammad, 1789
Fatimah Khanum, the daughter of Talib ibn [son of] Isfandiyar from Khvurasgan, first settled part of a building located in Khvurasgan to Aqa Muhammad, the son of Aqa Muhammad Riza, in exchange for eight thousand and five hundred dinars, but then received an additional nine thousand dinars and transferred all the property to him (1789). On verso, Aqa Muhammad's inheritors transferred this property to Aqa Masih from Khvurasgan in exchange for three tumans (1817).
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Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisaʼ and Mirza Muhammad Hadi, 1794
Marriage contract of Khayr al-Nisaʼ, the daughter of Haj Muhammad Khadim, and Mirza Muhammad Hadi, son of Mirza Muhammad Mahdi, the treasurer of the shrine of Imam Riza, with a mahr of 20 tumans, which includes: five tumans in cash, some crimson gold for three tumans, 12 mans of copper worth three tumans, a room carpet worth three tumans, and a female slave worth six tumans.
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