Eric George Millar (1887–13 January 1966) was the Keeper of Manuscripts from 1944 onwards at the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

and a scholar interested in English

illuminated manuscript An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared manuscript, document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as marginalia, borders and Miniature (illuminated manuscript), miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Churc ...

s. He produced the two-volume work ''English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century'' in 1926 and 1928. In 1934 he gave the

Sandars Lectures The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is an annual lecture series given at Cambridge University. Instituted in 1895 at the behest of Samuel Sandars of Trinity College (1837–1894), who left a £2000 bequest to the University, the series has con ...

on bibliography at the

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on "Some Aspects of the Comparative Study of Illuminated Manuscripts". Millar also produced a book on the

Lindisfarne Gospels The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the Bri ...

and a two-volume catalogue of the

Chester Beatty Papyri The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri or simply the Chester Beatty Papyri are a group of early papyrus manuscripts of biblical texts. The manuscripts are in Greek and are of Christian origin. There are eleven manuscripts in the group, seven con ...

. Millar was a member of the Athenaeum Club.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Millar, Eric George 1887 births 1966 deaths Employees of the British Museum English art historians