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 Hashim, for [illegible] and one man [unit of weight] of rice.” On the back: “On 10 May 1926, twenty-two tumans were given to Banu Khanum as the cash part of her mahr. In January 1927, Banu Khanum settled her share of the qanat water in Ab Bariki and her share of the land with the daughter of the late Darvish Husayn, whose husband was Karbalayi Husayn, son of Karbalayi ʻAli Akbar, for thirteen tumans and five thousand dinars.”
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- Date 14 March 1921
- Dimensions 40 x 22 cm
- Collections Meisam Ahmadi Kafshani
- Repository Meisam Ahmadi Kafshani Collection
- Restrictions Any non-academic and commercial use needs the permission from the owner of the collection.
- Accessed 30 August 2017
- Last Edited 21 September 2017
- Record no. 15161A152
