Polygonal cypress vriginal with gilt gesso scroll work on the inner face of each side. The instrument is fitted with a protruding keyboard, containing boxwood naturals and ivory sharps. The block of wood bearing the name and date of the maker is inserted into the nameboard (it is possible that this comes from another instrument). The cypress soundboard has a geometrically carved rosette with seven ivory studs. The virginal sits in a dark-blue trapezoidal wooden case, possibly of poplar, decorated with white moresque patterns. The inside of the lid is emblazoned with an emblem in the form of two hands clasping a serpent, with the motto Amoris vulnus idem qui sanat fecit. (The same thing that has made love's wound cures it.)

Two samples of blue paint on the case were analysed by Dr Lucia Burgio and Valentina Risdonne, Science Section, Conservation Department, 5 September 2017 (Report CONS1706), and found high quality azurite over gilding.