Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Things – [IcoC12906] Iconographies: Ichtyocolla ("fish glue", i.e. isinglass - collagen from the dried swim bladders of fish), Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) - Caption: Exosse piscis - Functional context: Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell
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[T81204]Wels Catfish? (De Exosse pisce, et de Ichtyocolla, Rondeletius). In Conrad Gessner, Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae Animalium Liber IIII: qui est de Piscium & Aquatilium animantium natura, Zürich: Christoph Froschauer (printer), 1558 (Washington, DC, Library of Congress), p. 57printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration