The Miller Atlas , also known as Lopo Homem-Reineis Atlas , is an atlas illustrated by the Portuguese dated from 1519, including a dozen charts. It is the combined work of the cartographer Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel, and illustrated by the miniaturist AntÃÆ'³nio de Holanda.
The areas represented are North Atlantic Ocean, Northern Europe, Azores, Madagascar, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, China Sea, Maluku, Brazil and the Mediterranean Sea. It was obtained in 1897 for the National Library of France by the librarian BÃÆ' Â © nigne Emmanuel Clement Miller, hence the name Miller Atlas.
It stands out for map details 'Terra Brasilis', less than twenty years after the landing of Pedro Alvares Cabral. It is thought to be the offering from King Manuel I of Portugal to Francis I of France. The accompanying charts and their authors have caused great controversy among scholars, especially the globally closed maps of the Pacific Ocean, which have been interpreted as an attempt to block the itinerant trip Ferdinand Magellan was then set up in Seville, in the palace of Charles I of Spain.
The title page bears the inscription then with the embrace of Catherine de Medici with the text "This is all the world for this unrecognized usqz day/board, which will be Wolf Man cosmologist/clear state Ulisipone year/Millessimo quigentessimo our fourteenth command of ninth/Emanuel, king Portugal after a few other comparable other QZ so long Hopefully the energy dilligenti and labor have been withdrawn. "
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