M ais crocodile par pleasure consue
V ient hors chasser loyseau qui puis i rentre
S ens mal luy fere de ses dens si crochues.
From the title lines of this segment of the NOTE, the famous surname is formed.
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In 1555, a book called " LES PROPHETIES DE M. _ MICHEL NOSTRADAMVS ", hereinafter – "Prophecies". It consisted of a preface dedicated to the author's son Cesar, written in prose, and the so-called Centuries. Each Centurion contained, according to the Author's idea, one hundred quatrains-quatrains: separate small prophecies. This first edition contained the first three complete Centuries plus 53 quatrains of the fourth. At the moment, the expanses of His Majesty the Internet, thanks to certain benefactors, show the world at least three surviving editions of that year. They all differ from each other, and one thing is very significant. Here, for the first time, we will have to face this fact, which brings indelible harm to any study of the work of Nostradamus: the printing matrices of the printing presses of those years, for some reason, were very often changed and corrected.
In 1557, again in Lyon, the French industrial and commercial center of those years, in another publishing house, Antoine du Rosne ", the second, expanded edition of the Prophecies is published, extended to the forty-second (40?) quatrain of the seventh Centuria. Moreover, the sixth Centurion, instead of the hundredth quatrain, had an unnumbered quatrain-spell in Latin.
To date, only three or four copies of the 1557 issue have been seen on the Internet. All of them are different from each other. Copies stored in Moscow and Budapest contain only forty quatrains of the seventh Centuria, and do not contain the spell "number 100" of the sixth. They are dated November 3, 1557.
By some irony of fate, the next copy of the "Prophecies", stored in the Netherlands, in the library of the city of Utrecht, dated September 6, 1557, is more complete. As I have already indicated, there are two more quatrains in it, and there is a spell in Latin. The fact that it is this edition, the most authentic, will be proved by me later. As for others – a huge question for the Author – WHY? Fear, because everything conceived and stated will be quickly revealed? …May be!
There are several main differences between the editions of 1555 and those of 1557. I will give some of them as an example.
Perhaps the main, and, as will be shown later, intentional difference is contained in quatrain 3-18, all attention is on its third line.
Option editions of 1555 :
Apres la pluie laict asses longuete,
En plusieurs lieux de Reins le ciel touché:
Helasquel meurtre de seng pres d'eux s'apreste,
Peres & filz roys n'oseront approcher.
Option more late editions :
Apres la pluie laict asses longuete,
En plusieurs lieux de Reims le ciel touche':
O quel conflict de sang pres d'eux s'apreste,
Peres & filz roys n'oseront approcher.
" Seng " is an untranslatable word, and most likely means " sang " – blood. Such a "mistake" for this book, as it turned out, is very significant. In addition, these editions differ from each other by words composed entirely of capital letters. One example is in quatrain 3-51: " PARIS " (1555), " Paris " (1557)
