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The next page lists the Presages of Michael Nostradamus. Long disputed, often rejected, it is now definite that they are authentic. The reason for this is that all of the presages were originally in the various almanacs that Nostradamus wrote.
I was able to verify using independent means that many of the quatrains in the Presages were actually written in the various almanacs that Nostradamus had published between the years 1555 & 1567. The way the Presages are structured, it was quite obvious that the remaining quatrains were also from almanacs that Nostradamus had written. None of the quatrains in the Presages seem to be from any source other than the almanacs. This makes them merely a collection of the quatrains of the almanacs.
When Nostradamus wrote the almanac quatrains, he had some quatrains that he penned at the beginning of the almanac. Others he penned at the beginning of each month. Therefore, an Almanac would have up to 13 quatrains, one a year quatrain, the other twelve quatrains differentiated by the month they headed.
Every quatrain in these Presages has a year/month designation or a “For the Year” designation, it is the exact same designation as was found in the original almanac and is how the almanac quatrains were named. Sève, to his credit kept the original almanac designation for those almanac quatrains he collected, even though he also gave them a presage number as well.
But as we could tell from the original numbering system, there are a number of the almanac quatrains that he did not find. And he did not trust the almanacs that were out there. The reason he did not trust the almanacs is that he dared not trust them. Even during Nostradamus’ life, forgers and scam artists made their own versions of Nostradamus’ almanacs, put in their own quatrains and tried to sell them to make a fortune. These obviously false almanacs competed with the legitimate almanacs and, when people compared them, saw the differences and decided that all of them were fake. Very likely Nostradamus tried to fight it but there was very little he could do in that day and age. Almost certainly Sève knew this.
It is likely that Sève’s only source was Chavigny, it was the only source he could realistically trust. Chavigny had a long history with Nostradamus, if he said it came from the prognosticator, there was strong reason to accept it came from the prognosticator. And all of the almanac quatrains Chavigny recorded Sève gave a Presage number to. Thanks to Chavigny, Vincent Sève was able to incorporate 141 quatrains into his Presages. But as the Presages and this collection proves, Chavigny did not collect all of the almanac quatrains. As a result, there are a number of almanac quatrains that do not have a presage number assigned to them. When you see a quatrain without a presage number, please remember this.
This may be the first time that we have collected as many of the quatrains from the almanacs as we have. Of course, all of the quatrains from the Presages made it into this collection. But at the same time some of the quatrains came from verified almanacs. Thanks to the presages, I was able to determine that the almanacs were legitimate because they had quatrains from the presages in them, properly named as Nostradamus named them. This also meant that some of the quatrains had both a Sève and almanac source. When this happened and the almanac source was not illegible, I included it to let you see what Sève wrote and what was in the Almanac. It was often very interesting how one word could change the meaning of an entire quatrain.
Of course, I retained the original naming system that Nostradamus gave, the month and year of the quatrain. For those that were given a presage number by Sève, I have included it as well. This way you can note which quatrains Sève saved and which ones I was able to recover thanks to Sève.