Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Tell me again how you are getting those numbers. I tried to find the previous post and must have zoomed past it (twice).

Which ones are you counting as Roman numerals?

By the way, I'm not doubting that there might be numbers. Numbers were common in medieval notations, but I want to know specifically which ones you chose and which ones you omitted.

I'm glad you asked:



NOTES

1. I'm interpreting the second c as c on the basis of the following drawing found on the last line of f116v:



2. I'm ignoring the garble that follows the second c.

2. I'm rejecting the i of quarix as a number because it has a left hook in sharp contrast to simple vertical or verticalish lines that are counted.

3. The second verticalish line comes with an overstroke which I am taking as a stop-count signal.

I don't have time to look up how many prophecies there were and I don't know if this is an accurate number, but they are saying 353 quatrains.

The first publication of the Nostradamus prophecies (1588) contained 689 quatrains and included prophecy V-35 (the 535 count). After quatrain IV-53 (the 353rd stanza) it made mention of an earlier publication which was fulfilled by 17th-century forgers. The first complete edition (942 quatrains) was published in 1590 and revised editions of that were backdated to 1568.

Note that the Wikipedia articles on Nostradamus were written by astrologers (essentially charlatans) who accept the backdated forgeries as genuine.

Facsimiles of the 16th-century publications including the one of 1588 can be viewed free of charge on the website propheties.it in the Bibliotheque Nostradamus section.