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(b c. 1415; d Aug 1483). English writer and collector. He was the nephew of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford. Robert is recorded at University College, Oxford, in 1430 and was elected Proctor in 1438, but he left Oxford in 1443 to pursue his studies abroad; in 1444 he matriculated at Cologne University, where he may have met the humanist William Gray, later Bishop of Ely. In 1446 he gained a degree in divinity at Padua, where he transcribed a copy of Cicero’s De officiis, in a script influenced by humanist manuscripts. He attended the lectures of Guarino da Verona at Ferrara, gaining some knowledge of Greek. On his return to England he became Dean of Lincoln College in 1452 and chaplain to Henry VI by 1453. He was appointed to several posts in Rome from 1455, although he is not recorded there until the autumn of 1458. From 1462 to 1472...