Tehran University Central Library

Collection of photographs, manuscripts, including tomes of poetry, travelogues, books of advice, anthologies, as well as marriage contracts

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Collection Highlights

Four copies of marriage contract, 1714 to 1827

Group portrait

Book on Finding a Spouse

Requesting financial aid from Hamdam al-Saltanah, 1924

Letter to Hamdam al-Saltanah, 1917

Kulliyat of Tajmah Khanum

Collection Details

Dates Mid/late 19th to 20th century
Last Edited 9 March 2022
Record Number 1255

Genres writings manuscripts travelogues correspondence legal & financial marriage contracts endowments sales & settlements leases photographs
Subjects advice marriage proposal marriage poetry husband and wife humor and satire andaruni Arabs bazaars bedding bread and bakeries caravansaries death fasts food fruit funerals and burials Hajj harems hookahs illness Jews money mosques parties photographs pilgrimages and shrines prayer pregnancy quarreling servants taʻziyah tea temporary marriage travel travelogues villages weddings ʻAshura etiquette feasts animals famines letter writing Majlis Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Interior Ministry of Justice peasants politics and government postal service power of attorney Premier Qur’an schools taxes water and irrigation weapons mahr slaves charity inheritance agriculture siblings rawzah endowments debts and loans wills stores baths and bath accessories construction gifts tombs and cemeteries financial matters property and property management children qanats orphans custody of children receipts clothing decrees gendarmerie remuneration petitions telegraph weather rent gardens armies usurpation household furnishings jewels and jewelry Ministry of War veils group portraits hats entertainers music rites and ceremonies architecture portraits hair ornaments and styles sewing carpets

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