Eric Millar

{{Short description|British art historian}}

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Eric George Millar (1887–13 January 1966){{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/millare.htm|title=Eric George Millar|publisher=Dictionary of Art Historians}}{{cite journal | author = C. E. Wright | year = 1968 | title = Preface | journal = The British Museum Quarterly | volume = 33 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–2 | doi = 10.2307/4423012 | jstor = 4423012 }} was the Keeper of Manuscripts from 1944 onwards at the British Museum and a scholar interested in English illuminated manuscripts.

He produced the two-volume work English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century in 1926 and 1928.{{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 }}

In 1934 he gave the Sandars Lectures on bibliography at the University of Cambridge on "Some Aspects of the Comparative Study of Illuminated Manuscripts".

Millar also produced a book on the Lindisfarne Gospels and a two-volume catalogue of the Chester Beatty Papyri.

Millar was a member of the Athenaeum Club.