This shelf gathers Western literature on prophecy and prophetic interpretation, beginning with Charles A. Ward's Oracles of Nostradamus (1891), a Victorian scholar's line-by-line attempt to match Michel de Nostredame's sixteenth-century quatrains to two and a half centuries of subsequent French history. Ward writes as a believer building a case, not a neutral historian, and his prose is dense with period digression; read him as a primary document in the history of Nostradamus reception, not as a settled verdict on the prophecies themselves.