03-08-2020, 10:14 PM
With the power and resources from this hypothetical scenario, a number of tasks could be solved effectively, I believe.
For example, find a few dozen people who know their way around French manuscripts (and adjacent languages) and have them scour those for month names. Gather everything in a central database. Pinpoint location & time.
Have people scour archives for correspondence by/to relevant figures from the Prague era. (I think anything after Prague won't solve the MS itself, because by the time it went from Baresch to Kircher, its origin and meaning was forgotten).
For example, find a few dozen people who know their way around French manuscripts (and adjacent languages) and have them scour those for month names. Gather everything in a central database. Pinpoint location & time.
Have people scour archives for correspondence by/to relevant figures from the Prague era. (I think anything after Prague won't solve the MS itself, because by the time it went from Baresch to Kircher, its origin and meaning was forgotten).