In this manuscript, medical illustrations have been painted over
the text of al-I’rab ’an qawā’id al-i’rab by Jamāl
al-Dīn ibn Hishām (b. 708/1310, d. 761/1360), a Cairene
grammarian. The treatise is an introduction to the study of the
Arabic sentence.
Medical illustration : a female figure with gravid uterus. The
illustration has been painted over a page of grammatical text.
49G: medicine, medical science