The Lost Tarot of Nostradamus kit

In 1994 a researcher working at the Italian National Library in Rome came across an unpublished manuscript containing eighty mysterious paintings, believed to have been devised by the sixteenth-century prophet Michel de Nostredame. The manuscript was apparently never published in Nostradamus's own lifetime, and was eventually passed to his son before making its way to Pope Urban VIII, after which it lay largely forgotten.

John Matthews and Wil Kinghan, both longtime students of tarot and visionary traditions, examined this material and proposed that Nostradamus had been designing his own card system, drawing on the prophetic visions and symbolic frameworks from his written work. Their reconstruction incorporates the original paintings, updated with modern expertise, to produce a deck that feels genuinely archaic and strange. For readers interested in divinatory history and the intersection of prophecy and tarot, this is a remarkable object.