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Collection of important documents including: early Ketubot from the 19th-20th centuries, documents, Shiviti leaves and amulets which were pasted into a volume of Rav Pe'alim, recovered in 1970 from the library of the Meir Taweig Synagogue in Baghdad. The documents and leaves were collected and pasted into the book by Chacham Salman Dabby, the last beadle of the Meir Taweig synagogue in Baghdad, ca. 1948-1970. Salman Dabby immigrated to Eretz Israel after the community disintegrated following the Six Day War, succeeding in bringing with him to Eretz Israel a collection of books from the immense library of the synagogue (which he claimed contained some quarter of a million books, many documents and dozens of Torah scrolls – see below). He habitually saved and pasted various documents, printed items and manuscripts in the books. We have here one of those books, in which were pasted particularly important documents (see also following item). On many of these documents, Salman Dabby added a handwritten inscription: "Brought it, the lowly Salman Eliyahu Binyamin Daniel Dabby from the Meir Taweig synagogue". This volume contains amongst others: · Responsa Rav Pe'alim, part I, by R. Yosef Chaim, the Ben Ish Chai. Jerusalem, [1901]. First edition. Title page printed with golden ink. Signatures and many inscriptions by Salman Dabby, with memorial inscriptions for his father and other relatives, and inscription attesting the book's provenance from the Meir Taweig [synagogue] library. An additional signature appears on the title page: "the young Yaakov son of R. Elisha Nissim". · Handwritten Ketubah, for the marriage of the groom Tzalach Nachum Yitzchak Aharon. Baghdad, Tamuz 1834. Neat, calligraphic script. Decorated with a border made from colored strips of paper. Signed by the witnesses: "Mordechai son of R. Sasson" (R. Mordechai Shanduch [d. 1852], was the eldest son of R. Sasson Shanduch author of Kol Sasson); "the young Mordechai son of R. Yitzchak Shamash". (In the Sassoon manuscript no. 467, an additional Ketubah signed by these two witnesses appears, dated Cheshvan 1833). Inscription on the verso of the Ketubah, with colored floral ornaments. · Handwritten Ketubah, for the marriage of the groom David Eliyahu Mordechai Yaakov Yaakov Faraj, with the bride Tzlacha daughter of (the abovementioned) Tzalach Nachum Yitzchak Aharon. Baghdad, Adar II, 1853. In neat calligraphic script. Decorated with a border of colored strips of paper. Signed by the witnesses: "the young Shimon son of Moshe son of R. Sasson"; "the young Mordechai son of R. Yitzchak Shamash". · Handwritten document, transferring property from the ownership of (the abovementioned) Tzalach Nachum Yitzchak Aharon to his daughter the bride Farcha. Signed by the witnesses: "the young Yechezkel Mordechai Bazoom"; "the young Ezra Rachamim Chaim Shlomo Moshe Gurgi". Baghdad, Kislev 1852. · Handwritten document, concerning the widow of Tzalach Eliyahu Yaakov, and her daughter-in-law Farcha daughter of Tzalach Nachum Yitzchak (abovementioned), signed by five witnesses and dayanim, including the dayanim: "the young Ovadia Avraham HaLevi", "the young Nissim Aharon Eliya Kohen", "the young Sasson Eliyahu son of R. Moshe Moshe HaLevi". Baghdad, Kislev 1858. · Handwritten document, regarding the inheritance of Eliyahu Mordechai Yaakov (father-in-law of Tzlacha, daughter of the abovementioned Tzalach Nachum Yitzchak Aharon). Signed by the three (aforementioned) dayanim of the Beit Din: "the young Ovadia Avraham HaLevi", "the young Nissim Aharon Eliya Kohen", "the young Sasson Eliyahu son of R. Moshe Moshe HaLevi". Baghdad, Tamuz 1868. · Pasted onto p. 29a is a printed document completed by hand: Document authorizing the relay of a Get (divorce document), with the handwritten signatures of five witnesses and dayanim, including the dayanim: "the young Salman Chogi Aboudi"; R. "Yehoshua Moshe Yechezkel" and "the young Refael Yitzchak Chaim". Baghdad, Tamuz 1938. · On the endpape