Quinterne

Quinterne [Lat. quinterna], MHGer.: gittern. In Hans Burgkmair's Triumph of Maximillian it is depicted as a small lute; to Virdung and Agricola it is a mandola; in Roth's dictionary of 1571, a 9-stringed lute (169). Sachs, Curt. Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. Leipzig, 1920.