Marriage contract of Shamsi Baygum and Muhammad Sadiq Darban, 1870
Marriage contract of Shamsi Baygum, daughter of Haj Sayyid Ahmad Khayyat [tailor] Darban, and Muhammad Sadiq Darban [illegible], son of Mulla Muhammad Husayn Kashani. The mahr includes twelve tumans, twelve misqals of rose gold worth twelve tumans, twelve mans of copperware worth twelve tumans, sets of rugs and bedding worth twelve tumans, and fifteen tumans for the purchase of a residential house. The marriage contract also includes the following conditions: in the first fifty years of the marriage, if the husband travels for two whole years without paying alimony to the wife, she can divorce herself and release the husband from paying half of the mahr. The husband is also not permited to take the wife out of the region without her consent.
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- Date 15 March 1870
- Dimensions 69 x 49 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. 15161A2
