This six-page document, dated June 28, 1599, is a contract for the formation of the first theatrical company in the Americas in Lima, Peru and had been in the Rosenbach’s collection for almost a century.
In 2017, Peru, the US Department of State, the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office began an investigation as to whether this manuscript had been wrongfully removed from a bound volume in the Peruvian national archives.
The manuscript had been purchased in the 1920s by its founder, Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach.
