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The Old Gallican Missal

Missale Gallicanum Vetus · Anonymous (Frankish, Gallican rite) · second half of the 8th century (the codex, Vat. Pal. lat. 493, is of that period) · liturgy

Latin · domain: latin-liturgy · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Missale Gallicanum Vetus' returns five records: the manuscript itself ('second half 8th cent'), the Latin edition 'Missale Gallicanum vetus (Cod. Vat. Palat. lat. 493)' (Roma: Herder, 1958), Tommasi's seventeenth-century 'Codices sacramentorum' (Latin), an English collection of essays (Henry Bradshaw Society, 2017) and the 1855-67 Pitsligo Press 'Ancient liturgies of the Gallican Church', which is a Latin text collection (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Missale%20Gallicanum%20Vetus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 None of these is a translation, and no English rendering of the Missal appeared among the records returned. The Pitsligo collection is available as a verified scan and prints the Missale Gallicanum Vetus in Latin alongside the Gothic and Richenau missals (https://archive.org/details/AncientLiturgiesOfTheGallicanChurch).

The purest surviving specimen of the non-Roman, Gallican Mass order, with its own Preface cycle, its diaconal bidding and its unusual Good Friday and Easter Vigil formularies. Because the Gothic Missal is now translated and this one is not, English readers get a misleadingly tidy picture of Gallican liturgy, seeing only the book that happens to have attracted a translator.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1855 edition)
AncientLiturgiesOfTheGallicanChurch

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: The Old Gallican Missal — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Correspondence : models of letter-writing from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century
· 1997 · eng
"Correspondence : models of letter-writing from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century." Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072550790203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Old Gallican Missal” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anon-missale-gallicanum-vetus