JOHN OF READING. – Franciscan theologian of the 14th century. He taught at Oxford not before the year 1319, then moved to Avignon, perhaps to teach in that Franciscan *Studium generale*. He was there in the year 1323: his name indeed appears among the theologians consulted by John XXII before the publication of the decretal *Antiquae concertationi* (10 Dec. 1323).
He wrote a commentary on the *Sentences*, preserved in ms. Conv. Soppr. D. 4.95 of the National Library in Florence, which however breaks off at dist. 5 of book I. It is supposed to have been completed during his Avignonese sojourn, given that the author cites John of Thornton and Richard of Drayton, his successors in the Oxford chair, and criticizes the nominalist movement begun by William Ockham around the years 1318–20, and by Peter Auriol. He knew William of Ockham personally and reports his oral authority: *Aliquando mihi dixit*; and perhaps was close to him as a scribe or secretary.