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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1500-1627
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Trinsel(l, Trunsell, Turnisol(l, n. Also: trins(c)hell, trunsale, trumsell. [ME and e.m.E. turnesole (1392), F. tournesol.] Purple colouring-matter obtained from the plant Crozophora tinctoria.(a) 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 74.
ij libre trinsell, price libre [13 s. 4 d.] 15… Aberd. B. Rec. (Jam.).
Tua pund trinschell, price of the wnce vi sh. 1606 Edinburgh Testaments XLI 318.
Ane pund four vnce trinshell at viij s. the pund 1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV 202.
Ane pund wecht trinsel pryce xl s.(b) 1510 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 258.
[Aniseed … ] skortchettis [ … ginger … damson plums … cochineal … almonds … saffron … ¼ pound] trunsale, 2 s. 1513 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 263.
Lie macis … [½ pound] lie trunsale, 4 s.: [½ pound] lie clowis [etc.] 1586 Edinburgh Testaments XVI 366.
Ane pund wecht of trunsell price xvj s.(c) 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 383b.
Sex pund of annet seidis … ane pund of trumsell price viij s.(d) 1371–2 Exchequer Rolls II 370.
Computat in … saundrio [pr. sanudrio], turnisol, granys paradiseis [etc.] 1375 Exchequer Rolls II 507.
Per empcionem de iij libris alkynet j libra de turnisoll et j libra de savndre
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