MS 621 - Dame Mary Lister's Household Book

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 998
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-792)
Title
Dame Mary Lister's Household Book
Shelfmark
MS 621
Creation Date
ca. 1620 - 1650
Repository
Leeds University Library, Special Collections (Brotherton Library)
Contents Note

Manuscript written by many hands. Attributed to Dame Mary Lister, wife of Sir William Lister of Thornton, Yorkshire.

Includes (1) household inventories and culinary and medical recipes by Mary Lister some of which are dated 1625-1635 (ff.11, 15-24, 39-40); (2) Recipes by Grace Bellasis (d.1659), Mary Lister's niece (ff.28-33); (3) Sermon on Joshua 7.20-21 dated 1625 (ff.158v-150); (4) catechism on Genesis 5-28, written in a variety of hands (ff.145v-88) (5) List of Mary Lister's books (f.160).

Material Features

160 folios. Ff. 85v to the end is inverted. Written in a variety of hands, mainly clear. Signature on f.1 Ralph Crosbie.

Associated People
Source of Data (Contributor name)

Catherine Evans; Leeds University Library Catalogue

Other Note

Images of entire manuscript are available via the Library Catalogue.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5181 University of Leeds digital record of the manuscript.
GEMMS record created
April 18, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024