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in 1322. Bromyard must therefore have been among the first friars to join the fledgeling priory. In an age when manuscript books were prohibitively expensive, it is likely that he embarked on the task of compiling preaching aids as a means of providing the priory with a library to support its
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Bromyard's four surviving works run to 1.75 million words. Five lost works are also known from early bibliographers and from cross-references in the surviving works; they probably brought his total production to between 2.5 and 3 million words.
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was cited by many writers of the succeeding generations and used by many more. It was first printed about 1484 in Basel and went through several editions, the last in 1627 in
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