Concordance to The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1568 Lyon edition)

In my work with Les Propheties of Nostradamus, the multiplicity of word use becomes important. The quatrains link together to tell stories, as outlined in the letters written by Nostradamus that explai what will be found in the verses. This means certain words of unique value that are repeated can be markers for connecting verses together.

Relative to this, I published two books that take just a few repeated terms and demonstrate how those unique terms tell separate stories that match the themes of The Prophecies. The first book was the $25-Million Answer: How Nostradamus Told Where to Look. That places important focus on the repeated use of monts Pyrenees, which are found in quatrains that indicate someone like Osama bin Laden. Because there was a reward offered by the F.B.I, for information leading to that Most Wanted criminal for that amount, the book was telling where Nostradamus indicated he could be found.

The second book was Nostradamus & Our Lady of Fátima, where multiple uses of vierge, meaning "virgin," was a word used by Nostradamus, with that having links to the apparition of the "Virgin" Mary to peasant shepherds in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917. That vision left a message of End Times prophecy, indicating when the Church of Rome would come to an end. Nostradamus details that end and makes allusion to that event foretold hundreds of years after Nostradamus wrote Les Propheties.

Over the years, I found a webpage produced by a man with technical skills and less interest in Nostradamus, where his computer programing abilities produced a concordance that was freely available online. There was errors in that concordance, most due to his source text being the 1566 Lyon edition. In time, his webpage shut down and that source was no longer available. That led me to create my own, using the 1568 Lyon edition, which I believe was produced to make corrections to the 1566 printing, which Nostradamus ordered his assistant Jean de Chavigny to oversee (Nostradamus would die in 1566 and was not in the best of health).

I recommend this book for all serious students of Nostradamus and researchers. There are significant differences between the 1566 and 1568 editions and the only logical explanation for a reprint being so soon, after Nostradamus' death, would be to make necessary changes to correct errors that were important to grasping, relative to a divine syntax being employed. It is easy to see how the printers made assumptions that led to improper changes, thinking Nostradamus misspelled many words (which the editor changed). The role of Chavigny was then to ensure the editor understood the original manuscript was to be maintains as written, as that was the intent. This concordance then lists the text that appears in the 1568 Lyon edition.

One of the problems the editor in Lyon encountered was multiple spellings for what appears to be the same word. This easily seems like an author's error, which an editor would change to accomodate the reader. This concordance takes this into account and lists each variation of a word, while adding a reference to see another spelling that is similar. Often such words will appear close enough together in a list that a researcher can easily see the differences. This makes words hide from computer searches that are attempting to make an accurate concordance. I have assisted the researcher in this endeavor.

In addition to words found in the 950 quatrains (one is a cinquain), I have also done separate listing of the words found in the two letters accompanying le Propheties (the Preface and the Epistle to Henry II King of France). This is important when one realizes the letters are explaining what the meaning behind the verses is. By associating words linking a letter to a verse, one can better grasp the purpose for such an enigmatic work.