1620 Spanish Peru Colonial Manuscript handwritten in an elaborate script, ten pages total, size 8 ½ x 12 3/8” and neatly bound by a string. The content is unknown, but it comes from a cache of Peruvian manuscripts I bought twenty years ago on eBay. The paper has a faint watermark that looks like a balloon with a cross inside, located on the center of the page. 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 “N13” and “Ano620.” The signatures appear on page 9, but there is extensive damage across the center of that page. Page 3 looks like another document with a signature, inserted into the manuscript. The ink is brown-colored. The scribe has initialed pages 3, 5 and 7 on the bottom center. Page 4 is blank. Each handwritten page has about 35 lines of text. Here’s a mystery waiting to be translated!