To the fulfillment of all good prophecies for the next year!

We wish all those interested in Livonian noble literature the fulfillment of good omens for 2024, be they received through tin casting and flames of fire or even via reading hand and face lines as the Riga-born Livonian nobleman Nicolaus von Ficken (Viccius) suggested to the emperor Rudolf II in his manuscript Metoposcopiae cum Chiromantia et Concordantia Genethliaca“(Salzburg UB, ms. M I 125) at the beginning of the 17th century.