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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1577-1694

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Virginal(l, Virginel(l, n. Also: wirginal(l, -el(l, wirgenel, vergenall, virgnel(l, wirgner. [e.m.E. virgynall (c1500), virgynalles pl. (1530), virginals (1542), virginall (1551), virginal (1638), appar. f. as Virginal adj.] a. A virginal, the musical instrument. In pl., pl. as sing., and coll. use. b. With double, pair. c. attrib. and comb.a. pl. a1578 Pitsc. I 359/12 (I).
Trumpatis schalmes luttis and violes virginallis or pinattis and all vther kynd of instrumentis
1612 Halyb. 333.
Wrests for virginals the groce … vi li.
pl. as sing. 1587 Maxwell Mem. II 160.
I spak to ȝow annentis the virgnellis … quhilk pertenis to ȝour brothir
1593 Edinb. B. Rec. V 104.
Mr. Jhonn Chalmer is qualefeyit in the airt of musik and playing upoun the virginallis
1603 Elgin Rec. II 398.
To play wpone all musicall instrumentis and speciallie wirginallis monicordis luit seister
c1610 Melville Mem. 124.
[Queen Mary] somtymes wald play vpon lut and virginelis
1613 Breadalbane Lett. (Reg. H.) 7 March.
As for the wirginellis … I haif naine heir that skill of them except the ȝoung laird
1627 Bk. Carlaverock II 91.
Thair is ane of them quha pleyes weill vpon the wirgenelis
1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 98.
To Lissie to give the man mended the virginalls, £2 16 s.
coll. 1640 Kennedy Aberd. Ann. II 135.
[They had teachers under them, and taught both vocal and instrumental music, particularly the] virginall [and] lute
b. (1) 1597 Halyb. cxiv.
Virginellis the pair
1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 332 (see Pair n. 4).
Virginals
1673 Leith Customs 15.
2 paire of virginells £2
1673 Leith Customs 16.
One paire of virginalls
1673 Leith Customs 23.
One pair vergenalls £1
1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 46.
A pair virginalls
1694 Inchmahome Pr. 162.
In the hall … ane pair of virginalls
(2) 1613 S. Leith Rec. 11/1.
Four scoir marks … for byinge of ane pair of double wirgenels for thair musick scool
1615 Bentinck Dornoch 176.
I will intreat ȝow to send me ane pair of the fynest dowle virginallis ȝe can get for the money
c. (1) 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV 191b.
xlvj hankis of virginall stringis at viij d. the hank
1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX 239.
Sextene dossane of virginell stringes estimat all to iiij lib. xiij s.
(2) 1673 Greyfriars Interments 3.
Adam Alexander virginals maker, his wife
1678 Edinb. Marr. 3.
Alexander Adam, virginall-maker
1684 Greyfriars Interments 3.
Adam Alexander wirgnermaker, a child

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