Boevey, John. Volume of unpublished drama and verse by John Boevey, Gloucestershire?

Folger bibliographic ID: 244732
Folger call number: W.b.661
Folger holdings ID: 310403
Accession Number: 265320

Mahomet the Second, or the Genrous Sultan (leaves 1-72v); act 1, scene 1 of an unidentified play featuring characters named Traxaspes, Tiribazes, and Miranda (leaf 73); "Amore Fuggitivo, or Love turn'd Fugitive" (leaves 74-77v); On the death of his grace George Duke of Albemarle (leaves 78-79v); Out of Claudian In Rufinum, attempted in blank verse (leaf 80r), "the same in Heroick-verse" (leaf 80v-81r), and "The Beginning of Claudian's Third Book De Raptu Proserpinae (or of the Rape of Proserpine) attempted in English verse ..." (leaf 81); a dedicatory poem for Mahomet the Second "To my Honour'd Brother-in-Law Col: Francis Courtenay of Pouderham Castle in the County of Devon" (leaves 82-83v); On the Death of his Late Majesty King William [th]e Third ..." (leaves 84-85r); On Queen Anne's Coronation, April [th]e 23th 1702" (leaf 85r); "A Dialogue between two Friends one of them being to part from his Mistress for a year" (leaves 85v-86v); "Epithalamium on [th]e Marriage of two persons whom diverse cross Accidents had kept several years from its consummation" (leaves 86v-87r); Celia to Damon (leaf 87r); "The beginning of Cavalier Marino's Prologue to Count Bonarelli's Pastoral call'd Filli di Sciro ..." (leaf 87v); The Beginning of a Tragedie, which if ever finish'd is design'd to be call'd, The Tragedie of Sophonisba (leaves 88-90)

General notes

Gilt stamped arms of Viscount Courtenay on front cover, partially damaged. Signature of Mary Courtenay on leaf 90v Included in Sotheby's sale, July 14, 2009 (lot 42) Acquired from Christopher Edwards in 2009

Extended title: Volume of unpublished drama and verse by John Boevey, Gloucestershire? ca. 1700-1705

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670 William III, King of England, 1650-1702 Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714

author: Boevey, John, active 17th-18th century
subject: Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481
subject: Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670
subject: William III, King of England, 1650-1702
subject: Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714
dedicatee: Courtenay, Francis, approximately 1651-1699
former owner: Courtenay, Mary, active 17th-18th century
former owner: Courtenay family