His father was Jacques de Nostredame, notary of the place: His mother Renée de Saint-Rémy, whose father's and mother's side ancestors were well instructed in the Mathematical and medical sciences.

 

 

.& I arrived here, not aware of how far it was, and what dizziness the sea would cause me, discovering the novelty of the places, just to meet you, and talk with you about Philosophy, Magic, Alchemistry and Kabala, which do not convince me nor can satisfy my mind...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V-058 De l'aqueduc d'Vticense Gardoing, Par la forest & mont inaccessible: En my du pont sera tasché au poing, Le chef nemans qui tant sera terrible.		V-058 (Translation / Interpretation) From the aqueduct of Vticense Gardoing*, Through the forest & inaccessible mount:  By mid bridge will have his fist tied, The nemans* leader who will be so terrible.
V-057 Istra du mont Gaulfies & Auentin, Qui par le trou aduertira l'armée, Entre deux rocs sera prins le butin, De Sext, mansol faillir la renommee.		V-057  (Translation / Interpretation) Istra from mount Gaulfies & Auentin, Will through the hole warn the army, Between two rocks there will be looting, Of Sext, mansol reputation will fail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C003 And since it pleased the immortal God that you come to the natural light in this earthly place, & your years that do not amount yet to several, but your Martial (month of March) months are incapable to receive in your dumb understanding what I will have to finish after my days: .

 

 

 

 

 

To you, my attentive readers, after having consumed the greatest part of my young years in pharmacy and to gain knowledge and understanding in plants in many lands and countries ever since the year 1521 and until 1529, always running to listen and understand about the origin of plants and mixtures that concern the end of the university cursus.

 

 

Translated from Latin:

Michel de Nostredame, from the region of Provence, from the town of Saint-Rémy and the diocese of Avignon, has come to study in Montpellier, and he swears to respect its statutes. He paid tuition and chose as mentor Antoine Romier. October 23 1529.

This follows: The name you see written here is that of a chemist, we were told by a local one. He was also heard lacking respect to doctors. I, Guillaume Rondelet, dean of admissions* cross him out of this book.    (*Procurator).

 

 

 

 

Originally composed by Master Michel de Nostredame, Medical Doctor of the town of Salon de Crau in Provence, & recently brought to light.

 

 

That after I had gone through my eight years accomplished and gone, found myself not being able to perfectly attain the highness of the perfect doctrine. & went on to finish my studies until today which is the thirty first year of my practice, that we hold to be the year 1552.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"One ounce of cypress sawdust, 6 ounces of Provence Iris powder, 3 ounces of eyelet powder, 3 grams of "calami dorati" or gilded reed, 6 grams of aloe powder, 3 or 4 red coldly cut roses gathered before morning dew.  Crush and mix the whole, constitute small pellets and dry in the shade.  The panacea is ready for treatment." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter to Henry 009
& most of it made up & granted to Astronomical calculation, corresponding to the years, months & weeks of the regions, areas, & most cities of Europe, including Africa, & a part of Asia with consideration to the change of regions, that get close to most of these latitudes, & composed with a natural leaning: 

 

 

 

"And better said that all things which must occur can be prophesied by the celestial lights of night & the spirit of prophecy, Him (Nostradamus) being ignorant of the whole, unknowing of any star and celestial body, wants to invent a new astrology forged in his fury of the senses & not indifferent (nonlimphatic like he says) on umbre of prophecy etc."

 

 

 

 

 

 

VI-100 (Latin) Legis cantion (cautio) contra ineptos criticos Quos legent hosce versus maturè cesunto, Profanum vulgus & inscium ne attrectato: Omnesq; Astrologi Sienni, Barbari procul sunto, Qui aliter facit, is rite sacer esto.Which translates into:

(Translation-interpretation) Caution of law against inept criticisms Let those who will read these verses thoroughly contemplate them, Let not the profane and ignorant crowd touch them:  And all the Astrologers, Louts, Barbarians stay away, Whoever would act differently, be declared crowned according to the rite.

 

 

 

 

 

V-095 Nautique rame inuitera les vmbres, Du grand Empire lors viendra conciter: La mer Aegee des lignes les encombres Empeschant l'onde Tirrenne defflottez.

V-095 (Translation / Interpretation) Nautical oar will invite the vmbres, From the great Empire will then come to solicit:  The Aegean Sea with lines* burden them Preventing the Terrene fleet to stay afloat.

 

 

 

IV-29 Le sol caché eclipse par Mercure Ne sera mis que pour le ciel second. De Vulcan Hermes sera faite pasture: Sol sera veu pur rutilant & blond.

IV-29 (Translation / Interpretation) The hidden sun* eclipsed by Mercury Will only be there for the sky second.  By Vulcan Hermes will be made pasture:  The ground* will be seen pure glowing & fair.

(*"Ground" and "sun" in French are similar words: sun = soleil, ground = sol. So it is difficult to determine which names what.)

 

 

 

6008 Peste, faim, feu & ardeur non cessée, Foudre, grand gresle, temple du ciel frapé, L'edict, arrest, & grieue loy cassée, Chef inuenteur ses gens & luy hapé. Translation / Interpretation) Plague, hunger, fire & endless heat, Lightning, huge hail, temple hit from the sky, The edict, arrest, & grieve broken law, Chief inventor his people & him gulped.		C016 Car les ouures diuines, que totalement sont absoluës, Dieu les vient paracheuer: la troisiesme, les mauuais. (Translation / Interpretation)Since the holy works are so completely absolute, God ends up finishing them:  The third one, the bad ones.

 

H010
Someone needing to blow his nose will answer that the tempo and rhyme (of the Centuries) are a bit too easy, while the meaning difficult. 

 

'oublioy de dire en un mot Qu'il rime comme poix en pot : Mais pour un diseur de matines Il couppe mal ses feminines. Ses vers sont faicts à estrivière Fort courts devant et longs derriere, Et sont naiz soubs tel horizon Qu'il n'y a ny sens ny raison : Tellement que ce docte Homere Semble estre fils de sotte mere Qui jadis rimoit en dormant, Ou plustost dormoit en rimant.

Translation: I had forgotten to say in one word That he rhymes like pitch out of pot:  But for a teller of matines (stories) He cuts badly his feminines.  His verses come out of a funnel Too short in front and long at end, And were created under such horizon That there is not a meaning nor reason:  So much that this well learned Homer Seems to be son of stupid mother Who once rhymed while sleeping, Or rather slept while rhyming.

 

 

 

 

 

(Extract from the article "The Alphabet Key" - On this website - Theme of the Secret Code)

The comparison is made with Corneille's "Le Cid", which is 60 years younger. This classical masterpiece was written in rhymes like the Centuries. It contains 17296 words exactly, including names of people and places as well as all distinct spellings. This corresponds to the volume of 8 Centuries, 6 quatrains and ½ verses. The result of the study is edifying. Le Cid contains 2757 words while Nostradamus used 4659 terms. This number is strictly inaccessible to human intelligence since the most gifted among us have at best 2500 words to communicate with. 

Le Cid The masterpiece contains altogether 17296 words.	Centuries 17296 words correspond to 8 Centuries + 6 quatrains + 1/2 verse
2757 words are unique	4659 words are unique

In order to obtain a strictly identical base of comparison, an initial treatment consisted in clearing the quatrains and scenes numbering. The resulting margin of error can be considered to be less than 1%. By means of comparison, a leading MBA programme textbook would hold less than 1500 distinct terms. 

 

 

 

 

 

Aiant la gueulle ouverte près du ventre Du crocodile et torchis qui entre Atout son bec lui ouatant les sangsues Mais crocodile par plaisance conçue Vient hors chasser l'oiseau qui mis i rentre

With its open jaws close to the belly Of the crocodile and the cob that enters To all of its mouth padding the leeches But crocodile by conceived pleasure Comes to drive out the bird that's there and re-enters

 

VIII-027 La voye auxelle l'vne sur l'autre fornix Du muy deser hor mis braue & genest, L'escript d'Empereur le fenix Veu à celuy ce qu'à nul autre n'est.

VIII-027 (Translation is beyond the autor's capabilities) The way that which (vowel?) one on the other fornix (fornicate?) Of the muy (?) desert out put (except?) brave & genest (people?), The Emperor's writing the fenix Seen to whom that to no one else is (?).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter to Cesar 29
And to the extent this occult Philosophy may have been disavowed, thus I didn't want to present their frantic persuasions: To this extent several volumes remained hidden during long centuries and were brought to my attention. 

Letter to Cesar 30
But doubting what would come about, I made (of the books), after their reading, a present to Vulcan, whom, while devouring them, the flame licking the air and causing a bizarre clearness, clearer than natural, a light of fulgurating fire of clysters, suddenly illuminated the house, as if it had been in a sudden conflagration. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LH019
Would it please your more than Imperial Majesty to forgive me Protestant in front of God & his saints, that I pretend not to have put anything unspecified in writing in this present epistle that would be against the real Catholic faith, conferring the Astronomical calculations that are endorsed to my knowledge. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LC008
...having considered to conceal & keep away from writing (the Centuries) due to the insult, & not so much of the present time, but also on behalf of the greatest part of the future, since the reigns sects & religions will make diametrically opposite changes from the present, ...

 

Sixtain 001 New Century, new alliance, A Marquis (marquess) placed in the nacelle (cart), Where the strongest of the two will win, From a Duke a King, galley from Florence, Port of (brought to) Marseille, Virgin in France, Catherine's head one will shave.

Sixtain 001 Siecle nouueau, alliance nouuelle, Vn Marquisat mis dans la nacelle, A qui plus fort des deux l'emportera, D'vn Duc d'vn Roy, gallere de Florance, Port à Marseil, Pucelle dans la France, De Catherine fort chef on rasera.

 

 

Sixtain 004 From a military, royal ancestry , such a great Prince will born, Soon, & late to come to his Prouince, Saturn in Libra exalting:  House of Venus with decreasing force, Lady dressed masculinely under escort, (Fr: escorce:scotish) To maintain the happy Bourbon lineage.

Sixtain 004 D'vn rond, d'vn lis, naistra vn si grand Prince, Bien tost, & tard venu dans sa Prouince, Saturne en Libra en exaltation: Maison de Venus en descroissante force, Dame en apres masculin soubs l'escorse, Pour maintenir l'heureux sang de Bourbon.