_Prutenicæ_ (No. 14. p. 215.).--The work to which your correspondent
alludes is, I presume, _Prutenicæ Tabulæ Cælestium Motuum, autore Erasmo
Reinholdo_: Tubingæ, 1562. This work is dedicated to Albert, Duke of
_Prussia_. In the dedication is the following passage:
"Ego has tubulas _Prutenicas_ dici volui, ut sciret posteritas
tuâ liberalitate, Princeps Alberte, nos adjutos esse, et tibi
gratiam ab iis, quibus profuturæ sunt deberi."
Reinhold therefore called them Prutenie, _i.e. Prussian_ tables, in
compliment to the reigning duke. _Pruteni_ is an ancient name of the
Prussians. Albert (grandson of Albert the Achilles, Margrave of
Brandenburg) was in 1511 elected Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights,
who then held Prussia. He continued the war which his order had for some
time carried on with his uncle, Sigismund I., King of Poland. But he
subsequently embraced the doctrines of Luther, deserted his order,
became reconciled to Sigismund, and for his reward East Prussia was now
first raised into a duchy as a fief of Poland, and made hereditary in
his family. This Albert was the founder of the University of Konigsberg.
(See Puffendorff, Frederick the Great, and Robertson.)
_Pandoxare_ (No. 13. p. 202., No. 15. p. 234.).--There is, or till very
lately was, an officer of Trinity College, Cambridge, called the
Pandoxator. He had the oversight of the college brewhouse, and formerly
of the college bakehouse also. See Monk's _Life of Bentley_, 2nd ed. i.
210. In Dr. Bentley's time the office seems to have been held by a
senior fellow. Of late years junior fellows have held the situation.
C.H. Cooper.
Cambridge, Feb. 11. 1850.
_Gazetteer of Portugal._--In answer to the inquiry of "Northman" (No.
16. p. 246.), P.C.S.S. has to state, that he believes that the most
recent, as it is unquestionably the most copious, work on the topography
of Portugal is the _Diccionario Geografico de Portugal_, published at
Lisbon in 1817, in seventeen volumes, 8vo.