File:Two Qajar deeds, Persia, dated 1897 and 1918.jpg

Ink on paper

162.4 by 22.5cm.; 63 3/4 by 8 3/4in. framed.; 105.5 by 26cm.; 41 1/2 by 10 1/4in. framed.

Persian manuscript on paper, tall firman with 42 lines to the page, headings in various divided panels at top, written in large nasta'liq script in black and red ink with stamps, ruled in black, gold, blue and red; smaller firman with 23 lines to the page, headings in various divided panels at top, written in nasta'liq script in black and red ink with stamps, black rules.

One of the deeds represents a contract of property sale between the vendor: Aqa Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad (pen-named Ruhani son of Mirza ‘Abd al-Wahhab pen-named Yazdani, ‘Abd al-Wahhab was the sixth son of the famous scribe Muhammad Shafi’ pen-named Vesal) and the buyer: Aqa Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad pen-named Hakim (unidentified).

Dated 23 Rabi’ I, 1337 (27 December 1918)

The other deed represents an agreement document between Hidayatullah Shirazi, Bibi Qamar Sultan and ‘Abd al-Ghaffar Shirazi to sell their named property in Shiraz to Karbala’i ‘Ali, the Shirazi rice seller (Razzaz) (none identified).