[Kitve Shelomoh Yosef Ḳarpi me-Liṿorno]

This is a manuscript of collected writings and correspondence of Solomon Joseph Ḳarpi (then spelled Carpi) of Livorno. The opening letter is addressed to his brother, Yiśraʼel Ḥayim Ḳarpi, called "the great emissary" in Aramaic ("hai sheluḥah rabah," f. 1r) on the title page which includes a note about the manuscript's creation. Writing about Shabtai Tsevi (Izmir 1626 - Ulcinj 1676, f. v-22r), he records testimonies about a trip through Istanbul (f. 5v-6v) and its surrounding villages (f. 7r-7v) and Shabtai in Italy, including Casale Monferrato (f. 8r-16v). Other materials include correspondence of a R. Mordekhai Bośki, a Shadar (acronym for Sheluḥa de-rabanan, a rabbinical emissary; f. 54r); a ḳinah written by Ya'aḳov Ḥayim Castir-Franco of Padua, possibly about a local tragic event (f. 67r-69v); a eulogy and poem on the death of R. Immanuel Ḥai Ricchi (Ferrara 1688 - Modena? 1743), a prominent cabalist and author of Mishnat ḥasidim and Hon ʻashir, who was murdered on the road near Modena (f. 90r-93r); correspondence to R. Joseph Galiḳi (then called Gallichi), a rabbi in Livorno (f. 110v). Included is a work titled "Naḥalat tsevi" (f. 93r-102v), a condemnation of the proto-Sabbatean writer Neḥemia Ḥayon (Egypt? ca. 1655- North Africa? ca. 1730) attesting to "the nefarious incident, 'Ḥiya Ḥayon sh.r.i.'" (acronym shem reshaʻim yirḳaṿ, or "let the name of the wicked rot") and the mention of Ḥayon's nemesis, R. Tsevi Ashkenazi (known as Ḥakham Tsevi; Velké Meziříčí 1656 - Lviv 1718) and mentioning Ḥayon's anti-Ashkenazi polemic ha-Ttsad Tsevi; the introduction ends with Ḳarpi's prayer to be remembered as siding with R. Ashkenazi (who is not named), and a note that the name of the treatise is the same gematriah as his full name. Some folios, possibly with text, may be missing where there are breaks in the contemporary foliation sequence (after f. 16, 42, 131, 140). Other places named are Severino (f. 114r) and Siena (f. 116v). The manuscript concludes with a poem in honor of Carpi's son Simḥah's marriage (f. 146v-147r). The paste-downs inside each cover have records of the births of members of the Carpi family, with the latest dated 1750.