1623 Spanish Peru Colonial Manuscript handwritten in an elaborate script, ten pages total, size 8 ½ x 12 3/8” on two sheets of paper, folded in half and neatly bound by a string, with an additional page inserted. The content is unknown, but it comes from a cache of Peruvian manuscripts I bought twenty years ago on eBay. I can't detect any watermarks on the paper. The condition is extremely used, with stains, creases, folds, worm holes, marks, rips, curls and irregular edges. You know, it really looks like it’s 400 years old! The back of it has some notes including “N26,” “Ano623” and "Novembre del625." On page 9 is a beautiful batch of signatures with ornate initials. The ink is brown-colored. The scribe has initialed pages 1, 3 and  5 on the bottom center. Page 7 is an inserted page written in a different hand, while page 8 is blank. Each handwritten page has more than 30 lines of text. Here’s a mystery waiting to be translated!