# Eric Millar

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{{Short description|British art historian}}
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'''Eric George Millar''' (1887–13 January 1966)<ref name="Dict">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/millare.htm|title=Eric George Millar|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians}}</ref><ref name="Wright">{{cite journal | author = C. E. Wright | year = 1968 | title = Preface | journal = [The British Museum Quarterly](/source/British_Museum_Quarterly) | volume = 33 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–2 | doi = 10.2307/4423012 | jstor = 4423012 }}</ref> was the Keeper of Manuscripts from 1944 onwards at the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum) and a scholar interested in English [illuminated manuscript](/source/illuminated_manuscript)s. 

He produced the two-volume work ''English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century'' in 1926 and 1928.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Otto Homburger | year = 1928 | title = Review: English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century | journal = The Art Bulletin | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 399–402 | doi = 10.2307/3045425| jstor = 3045425 }}</ref> 

In 1934 he gave the [Sandars Lectures](/source/Sandars_Lectures) on bibliography at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) on "Some Aspects of the Comparative Study of Illuminated Manuscripts". 

Millar also produced a book on the [Lindisfarne Gospels](/source/Lindisfarne_Gospels) and a two-volume catalogue of the [Chester Beatty Papyri](/source/Chester_Beatty_Papyri).<ref name="Wright" />

Millar was a member of the [Athenaeum Club](/source/Athenaeum_Club%2C_London).<ref name="Wright" />

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