"As for your present too massive ignorance of Balde's other works -- yes, that's of course a huge limitation. But...there are no short-cuts. You just slowly (at first terribly slowly) learn more and more, at first just by 'researching' the hardest places -- e.g. by doing word-searches, so as to find 'loci similes', both in his own works and in what you sense he might have been reading. (Of course, this 'sense of what he might have been reading' will be wretched at first; but at first slowly, and later more quickly, it gets sharper and sharper.)
What I did was: (A) put on my computer all his works that I could find online, and whenever possible, in Word format (rather than PDF), so that I could do searches; and (B) google and google and google. These methods are primitive and terribly tedious -- but initially there's no other way to do it." --Maurer
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