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Dysert’s project focuses on a survey of the 12^th and 13^th-century manuscripts of Isaac Israeli’s “Dietae universals” and “Dietae particulares,” an influential yet understudied medical treatise of the 12^th century renaissance. The project involves the identification, dating, localization, and creation of detailed paleographical and codicological description of the manuscripts containing these texts.

“Dysert’s ambitious yet eminently executable, focused, and well-articulated proposal promises to accomplish several things simultaneously as a result of a 30-day resource sojourn in Germany,” said award co-chairs Katie Gibson of Miami University and Thomas Keenan of the Princeton University. “She targets a small complex of relevant manuscripts held in four German repositories and lays out a plan for their analysis via specific codicological and paleographic methods. This analysis has a narrower aim of re-contextualizing a manuscript held at Dysert’s home institution (McGill University’s Osler Library of the History of Medicine) and a broader objective to illuminate an under-explored aspect of the assimilation and dissemination of medical thought and practice of Arabic origin in Europe in the late Middle Ages.”

“Dysert’s formal training in codicology, paleography, and Western history, her experience as a professional librarian in a library of medical history, and her strong publishing record in library science and history of science encourage hopes that the expedition funded by the De Gruyter award will prove a highly productive one,” continued Gibson and Keenan. “We and the other members of the ACRL European Studies Section Award Committee are exceptionally pleased to be able to offer the award to Ms. Dysert this year.”