US repatriates a 16th-century manuscript stolen and auctioned in New York to Paraguay

A stolen 16th century manuscript is returned to Paraguay, via the Upper West Side

The document had been housed in the National Archive of Paraguay before it went missing.

New York, Apr 19 (EFE).- The U.S. authorities have repatriated to Paraguay a 16th-century manuscript that was stolen from their National Archive and reappeared at an auction in New York more than a decade ago, as announced by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office. It is the so-called manuscript “Hernandarias”, written and signed by colonial governor Hernando Arias de Saavedra in 1598, and which was recovered in early April by the Antiquities Traffic…

Asunción, Agencia IP.- Around 13 handwritten pages from the 16th century by Hernando Arias de Saavedra (Hernandarias), the first Creole governor of the Río de la Plata, have been recovered by Paraguay through a judicial process in the United States. The documents are part of the Cabildo records dated December 12, 1598. They are believed to have been still from the country’s National Archive in the 1990s. These documents were recovered through co…