Things
(Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography in context: [IcoC12906] Iconographies: Ichtyocolla ("fish glue", i.e. isinglass - collagen from the dried swim bladders of fish), Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) - Caption: Exossis piscis [Boneless fish] - Functional context: Gessner's Historia animalium or Icones, or Topsell
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| ID | Thing | Type | Category | Technique | Materials | Function | Image | Width | Height | Depth | Date description | Date from | Date to |
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| [T81204] | Wels Catfish? ('On Boneless Fish and Isinglass' - 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 (Warsaw, BN), p. 57 ◼ | printing: impression | page: figure | woodcut | paper | book decoration: illustration |  |