O'Malley (John W.), born 1927

(24.5 cm), xii, 276 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - A minute examination of sermons preached at the papal court at Mass (coram papa inter missarum solemnia), from the reign of Nicholas V to the death of Leo X. The bibliography at the end of the book lists about 160 sermons still extant in manuscripts or early printed editions, by seventy preachers. A major contribution to scholarship, it was awarded the American Historical Association’s Howard R. Marraro Prize. ¶ Two tears in dust jacket; otherwise an excellent, unmarked copy