The Bobbio Missal is one of the most important and interesting liturgical books surviving from the early middle ages. It is the best known example of the 'Gallican' type of missal, attesting therefore to the distinctive liturgicalpractices which were widespread in Merovingian and Frankish churches during the seventh and eighth centuries, before these began to tbe replaced by the Roman practices including use of 'Gregorian' missals in various forms...