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In CCSL 159D a new edition of the Missale Gothicum is presented. The Missale Gothicum belongs to the genre of the sacramentaria (books that contain the prayers of Mass), and to the liturgical rite of early medieval Gaul, the so-called Gallican liturgy. While the other sacramentaries CCSL 159-159C represent the stage of this rite around 750 AD, the Missale Gothicum, written around 700, reflects an earlier stage of the Gallican liturgy. The manuscript, now in the Vatican Library (Vat. Reg. lat. 317) was presumably written in a Burgundian scriptorium, and was most probably in use in the church of Autun. The edition for CCSL is based on a renewed study of the manuscript, and digests the work of three previous editors. Next to the apparatus criticus, an apparatus with biblical references and an apparatus of parallel texts are incorporated. The text edition is accompanied by an analysis of the language of the Missale Gothicum. The text is an important source of early medieval Latin, a language in a transitional stage. This linguistic analysis aims at providing an aid to understand the text. A confined study of the development of the liturgical commemoration of saints in the Missale Gothicum is added as an appendix. Here the text is put in its context: the liturgical and religious tradition of Merovingian Gaul.