Belonged to Aqdas al-Dawlah
Made in Paris; belonged to Aqdas al-Dawalah
Belonged to Badr al-Zaman and Aqdas al-Dawlah
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for Aqdas al-Dawlah, daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah and wife of Zahir al-Islam; her power of attorney to Sadiq Daftar to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
Standing from left: Fakhr Iran Kamrani (Fakhr ʻAlaʼ), Huma Ittihadiyah Farmanfarmayan, Fakhr al-Dawlah, unidentified, ʻIffat (the bride), Aqdas al-Dawlah (Fakhr al-Dawlah's sister), and Quds al-Zaman ʻInayat (daughter of Aqdas al-Dawlah and wife of Zahir al-Islam); sitting from left: Hamdam Nafisi, ‘Izzat al- Muluk Farmanfarmayan Pirniya, and Jabbarah
First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II], the daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of Sayyid Zayn al-ʻAbidin Imam Jumʻah. The Qur’an was gift-endowed in the female line in the family, provided that the person would accept reading it every day for the spiritual benefit of Ziya’ al-Saltanah's mother, Nadim al-Saltanah. The date of the endowment is June 1, 1885. Her seal's date is 1857 (perhaps her birth year). After Ziya’ al-Saltanah's death, the Qur‘an was in the possession of her daughter-in-law, Aqdas al-Dawlah (a daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah) and...
Includes a list of expenses related to the household of Nusrat al-Saltanah, telegram and registered mail receipts, an account book which belonged to Mahin al-Saltanah, checkbook stubs with Nusrat al-Saltanah's transaction records, booklets of financial records, and miscellaneous receipts and lists of expenses
Petition on the letterhead of the Majlis signed by some of Muzaffar al-Din Shah's inheritors: Aqdas al-Dawlah, Qamar al-Saltanah, ‘Izzat al-Dawlah, Fakhr al-Dawlah, Shukuh al-Dawlah, Aqdas al-Saltanah, Anvar al-Dawlah, A‘zam al-Dawlah, and Nur al-Saltanah. They complain about the confiscation of some property by the government. According to the signatories, these properties were partly the personal belongings of Muzaffar al-Din Shah that he had purchased when he was the Crown Prince in Azerbaijan and partly the properties he inherited from his mother, Shukuh al-Dawlah, and her maternal...
Correspondence between Nusrat al-Saltanah and his son, Mahdiquli Mirza, about family and financial affairs.
Correspondence between Mahdiquli Mirza and his mother A‘zam al-Saltanah about family affairs. There are also three letters from Mahdiquli Mirza to: his paternal grandmother, Mahin al-Saltanah; his sister Marziyah and his brother Mu'in al-Din; and a letter from Nusrat al-Saltanah to his wife, A‘zam al-Saltanah.
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